Timcast IRL - Pelosi Rushed To Hospital After Falling BREAKING HIP, Needs SURGERY w/Richie Jackson

Episode Date: December 14, 2024

Tim, Phil, & Carter are joined by Richie Jackson to discuss Nancy Pelosi being rushed to the hospital after falling & breaking her hip, Trump says the government should shoot down the mysterious drones above New Jersey, the FBI investigating a drone crash in New Jersey but finding nothing, and an OpenAI whistleblower found dead in a suspected suicide. Hosts:  Tim @Timcast (everywhere) Phil @PhilThatRemains (X) Carter @CarterBanks (X) Serge @SergeDotCom (everywhere) Guest: Richie Jackson | https://richiejackson.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thank you. like her. This is not fun, but I will take advantage of the moment to express we need younger people in office. And these older folks, thank you for whatever it is you did. I don't know. I have great disdain for Congress, but you lived your life. Now it's time to retire and let younger people step in. And it's not going to happen, Nancy, until you retire. OK, what is she? She's 84. I'm sorry. Okay, I hope you're okay. I hope she's all right.

I hope she now decides that it's time to retire and we can't have it. So we'll talk about that. Plus, we're going to talk about just like, ah, this weird stuff, man. These drones that are flying around, apparently they're airplanes. And I would not be surprised if that was the case. At least the White House is saying,

yeah, all of these sightings from all these people, it's their airplanes. And people don't know what they're looking at because they don't know what airplanes are. And it could be mass hysteria. However, one of these drones apparently crashed. And when they went to go investigate, there was nothing there, which proves it. Aliens. Okay, not really.

But one can hope or fear, I guess. So we'll talk about that. And there's a bunch of other crazy stories. The Duke lacrosse rape hoax is now everyone knew it was, but it's confirmed. And the woman who claimed that she was raped by these Duke lacrosse players 20 some odd years ago, just just shy of 20 years ago, she's now admitted the whole thing was fake. So we've got some stuff to talk about. And then there's an open AI whistleblower found dead.

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Hello. I am Richie Jackson, professional skateboarder, and I'm very happy to be here. Is that it? Just professional skateboarder, happy to be here. Yeah, I got nothing else. All right, thanks for hanging out. He's got a mustache.

That's something else. Carter's here. What's up here. Yeah, I got nothing else. All right. Thanks for hanging out. He's got a mustache. That's something else. Carter's here. What's up? Carter Banks, professional audio engineer. All things music for Tim Cass and Trash House. Also pleased to be here. Pumped to be on with you. You guys, okay, Phil's here too. Hello, everybody.

My name is Phil Labonte. I'm the lead singer of the heavy metal band All That Remains. I'm an anti-communist and a counter-revolutionary, and if you want, I can go on. Well, no, I was going to say, like, how come Phil and I look like it's warm in here and you guys look like it's cold in here? Wait, you're anti-communist and a counter-revolutionary and if you want I can go on I was going to say, how come Phil and I look like it's warm in here and you guys look like it's cold in here I was trying to match Richie's style

Richie's wearing this thick coat Carter's wearing a thick coat and then Phil's wearing shirts Zipped up too, up to the top Do you have hickeys from all the sexy ladies that are sucking on your neck? I am wearing a turtleneck He's hiding hickeys I bet the sexy ladies that are sucking on your neck? I am wearing a turtleneck.

See? Look at it. He's hiding hickeys, I bet. Well, how about instead of talking about that, we just talk about the news. We got this story from the New York Post. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 84, rushed to hospital after breaking hip in fall on foreign trip. And, you know, I didn't know if I was like, should we lead with this story? Because how do you do this?

I'm going to be completely honest. When I heard she fell. And again, I know, guys, I'm going to get a lot of criticism for this, but I laughed. And I don't. And the reason why I'm somewhat reluctant to mention because I'm sitting in the other room and the news broke and it wasn't like I started busting out laughing, but I just like chortled. It's because I don't want her to get hurt. I hope she's OK. Seriously, I do. They're saying she's gonna need surgery.

But we got too many seriously old people in government. That's what the chortle is. It's like, oh, of course this is going to happen. How are we a nation where one of our three branches of government is a gerontocracy? Now, don't get me wrong. I know Donald Trump is old as well, but Trump is spry. I mean, I'm looking forward to 2028 with J.D. Vance or somebody else. But let me show you this photo that they have over the Daily Mail. Everyone's pointing out that Nancy Pelosi is struggling to hold on to this guy's arm when they took this photo. And that's indicative of something else is wrong. I think she needs to retire immediately and they need to have a special election in San Francisco. That is a wonderful idea.

People in their 80s don't like they're in. They don't have to worry about the future all that much or there's not a lot of future for them to worry about they shouldn't be in making policy decisions um for people that actually do have to worry about the future um i mean i think there's a good argument that that was addressed by the founder saying you have to be a certain age because you need a certain amount of life experience um i assume they didn't really expect people to stay in government for as long as they did. I was watching the All In podcast today, and they were talking about how many people on Trump's team are actually leaders of business. And one of the interesting things that Trump is doing is he's not finding people in the defense industry to go into the defense department or people in the financial industry to go into treasury and stuff like that he's taking people that are very smart and that have amassed great wealth because of their intelligence and because of their ability in

business and he's bringing those people in in places where they might not you know might not be normal for them but that's a good thing because then you get different ways of thinking in these positions. Yeah. It's like having people from, you know, he's building like an all-star cast. People actually have proven life experience doing those things. And one of the things that the founders, like all of the founders of the, this country,

they all had other professions. Weren't they all in their twenties? No, they weren't all in their twenties, but they were in their early, they were in their twenties and thirties when they, when they were young, but when they,

yeah, when they, when like, when Jefferson wrote the Jefferson wrote the, uh, the declaration, it was 33, but they did, they did like,

they actually governed when they were, you know, in their forties and fifties and stuff like that. But they all had jobs. They all spent a time in government, served the country, and then went back to their jobs. They went back to being normal citizens. And one of the things the guys in the podcast were talking about

was this is a very good thing because it keeps people out of, it keeps people from being, you know, institutionally involved in the bureaucracy. Well, let's just take a pause a second and take a look at the Commonwealth, you know, once great colonies of the crown. And, you know, I just got to say, what was Canada? Huh? A bunch of fur traders?

What was Australia? A bunch of prisoners. Hey, now, you watch it, buddy. I don't even know people in New Zealand were doing. Americans, we were fighting bears and fighting back this is a nation founded by the strongest that's why we

blow up a bunch of children overseas in wars we shouldn't be involved in well, I don't know if that's on the positive side but it is a good idea to have people from private industry come into the government and then go back to private industry. Right.

Well, on that note, I think it's the perfect time for me to renounce my Australian citizenship and present to you. Does that count, actually? Oh. A verbal contract. Straight into a commercial. You know, I don't know what the rules are for renouncing Australian citizenship. I didn't really renounce it. But I am an American, just to make that clear.

I've had a few people say, but he's not American. I am. I'm a naturalized citizen and proud to be one. Oh, so you actually came here legally? 100%. Legally? Yes. I went by the book.

How long did it take? A very 1980s of you. Right. Oh, jeez, man. That's pretty wild where we are as a country. It's great. Another story, which we'll get into in a second, though, is like Biden selling off the border wall, which is just absolutely insane. To who? But how long did it take you, good sir, to come here legally? It didn't take that long. It was actually pretty easy. I studied. Really? Yeah, I studied

for the citizenship test. It's 100 questions and they end up asking you about 10, and you have to get 8 right. Like, what was one of the questions? If the president dies and the vice president dies, who will be the president? Nancy Pelosi. It's not actually true, though. It would be Mike Johnson. Oh, really? It would have been Nancy Pelosi a couple years ago, but yes, Speaker of the House. Who's after that?

Oh, I couldn't tell you. It was a long time ago. Is it President Pro Temp? I believe so and then who's after that it's funny that you're only supposed to know two I think it starts with the cabinet after that are you sure no I'm not sure I said I think

I don't think that's true cabinet maybe but I doubt it you know what's another question let me see what was a civil war fought over yeah exactly did they actually ask that yeah they did what what movie was it where oh it was simpsons when apu is taking the test and he's like well actually it's kind of complicated some people might say that it was the slavery but that there was a lot of tension he goes just say slavery

just say slavery it was like that yeah it was like that. Yeah, it was. It was like that, just say slavery. It was easy, man. I aced it, and I was in. Yeah. Did you actually get, like, a number score? No, I just was. Pass, fail. I won. Yeah, it's pass, fail.

But when you're, like, how did you first apply? Like, how do you do it? You just go on the internet and click a button? Yeah, more or less. And these people can't even do that. They come to this country, and they come in illegally, and they can't go on the internet and just click a button. No computers.

That's wrong. They have no computers in Honduras, apparently. I don't know. You said Honduras. I'm looking to find out. That's where a lot of these people are coming from. They're coming from Guatemala and Honduras. Now, I get it.

Honduras is the murder capital per capita. I thought it was Jamaica. No. Really? Yeah, Honduras. I'm looking at the wrong stats, I guess. I'm pretty sure it's Honduras. And then Venezuela, Caracas, has the most murders of anywhere in the world, but not per capita.

Oh, wow. Yep. Yep. Let's... I think that's what it is. Yep. Fourth year in a row. Oh, no.

It looks like it's improved a bit that's good that's good for them i i hope things get better uh which country highest homicide per capita it was honduras for a while what's really saint kits and nevis has taken over as the most dangerous place there's not that many people there though so yeah and that's where rich people buy passports just to avoid paying taxes. So after it's vice president, speaker of the house, then president pro temp,

then secretary of state, secretary of treasury, secretary of defense, then attorney general, then secretary of the interior. Keep going. Keep going. Well, go right to the bottom of the list.

Actually, I think it's secretary of state, then secretary of treasury, then the attorney general, then the secretary of agriculture, secretary of labor, Secretary of HUD, Secretary of Energy, then Secretary of Veterans Affairs, I believe. Because it says one, two for, like it says Secretary of State, then Secretary of Treasury, then it says one, Secretary of Treasury, and two, Secretary of Defense. I think that might be who is the vice president. There's only 18. Yeah.

It's Secretary of Homeland Security. After that that there's nothing hmm so what happens when they just like vote then you have the hell they become the president if uh well i mean all 18 are gone there is a there is a a policy that the federal government has called the restoring the continuity of government they do they have a lot of plans to make sure that it never even gets to the secretary of state. If you if if there's a war and they wipe out the president, vice president, speaker of house and president pro temp and they get to the secretary of state, that's a lot of bad things have gone wrong. But I asked Chet GPT what would happen if aliens abducted all of them at the same time?

And it said it says if all individuals in the official presidential line of succession were abducted or otherwise incapacitated, the situation would be unprecedented and create a constitutional crisis. Yeah. Oh, geez. I mean, if it was aliens, it would create much more of a constitutional crisis. I do actually think that that would be a situation where the states would be like, all right, we're going to take care of ourselves and we're going to listen to the governor.

You know, if you got rid of the whole of the whole line of secession. Yeah. I, you know, or the aliens. We might say, you know what, we're going to listen to the aliens that just took care of all of the the line of secession for the entire president. I'd imagine if if aliens came and had abducted two of our presidential candidates and then threatened a small Midwestern family with abducting the rest of Congress, they would challenge them to actually try, and then they might. What do you think about the idea that we have about a decade left before contact? These drones over New Jersey probably are alien. That's not extraterrestrial.

That's proof. No way. Zero. Zero chance. I'm saying... I don't know man with the james webb space telescope we're on the cusp of discovering a dyson sphere or some kind of evidence remotely it's not what we already did they're not going to tell you you don't think so

what what would be the implications of the government coming out and being like we just want to let you guys know like we literally found an advanced civilization i don't think much i think there's this overhyped thing of like oh the government knows and they're not telling us i don't believe that for a second i the the conspiracy theory is that over the past four or five years they've been slamming us with information about ufos to the point where we're supposed to get bored of it that way when they come out and they go oh yeah there's aliens we'll be like okay we get it geez yeah i don't think it'll be the earth-shattering news that we think it is.

That's kind of working. Yeah. Yeah. What they've been doing. I don't think, I think they came here a long time ago and they're not coming back. You're one of those ancient aliens guys?

I kind of am, yeah. Okay. They built the pyramids? You're on that track? I don't know if they did it, but I don't know if the people they say they did it, did it. I think you don't think that it was the slaves of the Egyptians. Thank you.

And what they did was they had big horns and they put the giant blocks in the ground and then they put giant blocks on top with sand and then they would all blow horns which would cause it to vibrate and shuffle forward. I think that is one of the theories. One of the theories. Or the theory is they floated

them because they indeed could be floated through a water canal. But who knows? I don't think you need aliens to build a pyramid is my point. I don't think so either. I agree. You do not. Let's jump to this next story. Speaking of aliens, we've got this from The Hill.

Trump calls for mystery drones to be shot down. Please, everyone, for the love of all that is holy, do not shoot at these drones. It is a very serious federal crime. Do not do it. Trump is not calling for regular people to do it. President-elect Trump on Friday called for authorities, you see, to shoot down these drones. Also, they shouldn't either because bullets come down.

Mystery drone sightings all over the country. Can this really be happening without our government's knowledge? I don't think so. Let the public know and now. Otherwise, shot them down. Mystery drone sightings all over the country. Can this really be happening without our government's knowledge? I don't think so. Let the public know and now otherwise shot them down. DJT, the incoming president, wrote on Truth Social. The Post comes as they've been mounting reports of sightings. Did he misspell it? He has two

spelling mistakes in that tweet. He could have proofread that one. He doesn't need to. I thought there was someone that wrote his tweet. That's what I thought. We saw that video. He dict't need to. I thought there was someone that wrote his tweet to Florian. That's what I thought. We saw that video. He dictated them and then someone else was typing them out. Maybe he's using

story or something. Maybe they don't want to correct him. That's probably true. Oh, yes. It's shot. It's fine. What was the second?

Oh, I Don Think So. He wrote, I Don Think So. That was just a self-shout out. Yeah. Donny T. So check out this story from NewJersey.com.

Many drone sightings are just planes, White House says. I got to be honest. I completely agree. Fox News had this interview with a guy who was like a drone expert. And he's like, I have looked at hundreds of these videos, hundreds. They're just airplanes. And you know what it is? It's mass hysteria.

Yeah. We were talking earlier about St. Vita vitus dance which is where entire towns just started dancing for no reason in medieval europe and it was the mass psychosis that spread again that's all it is yeah but it spread from person to person people just start dancing and you said they danced until they were until they died of dehydration yeah so the legends go i don't know that's true i mean there is such a thing as mass psychosis what is it What is it called? Look at COVID. St. What's Dance?

St. Vitus Dance. V-I-T-U-S. Oh, it's a disease. A nickname for Seidenham's chorea, a movement disorder that's caused by strep. Ah, so it was a disease. There's also St. Anthony's Fire. Did you ever hear about that one? St. Elmo's Fire?

No, St. Elmo's Fire is the plasma. St. Anthony's Fire. Did you ever hear about that one? St. Elmo's Fire? No, St. Elmo's Fire is the plasma. St. Anthony's Fire, they were looking into what caused it because entire towns were just completely nuts. And it was a fungus in the grain. It was ergo. And that is what LSD is synthesized from. So it's the dancing plague of 1518. There we go.

An event in which hundreds of citizens of Strasbourg, a free city in the Holy Roman Empire, danced uncontrollably and apparently unwillingly for days on end. The mania lasted for about two months before ending as mysteriously as it began. That's amazing. So you think the same thing is happening with these drones? She was unable to stop and kept dancing until she collapsed from exhaustion. After resting, she resumed the compulsive, frenzied activity. For days, within a week, more than 30 other people were afflicted.

Was that music? That's wild, dude. I don't know. I think you're onto something as far as it being a mass psychosis event. They think it was ergot. They think everybody was eating infected. Investigators in the 20th century suggested that the afflicted may have consumed rye flour contaminated with fungal disease ergot, which made them just lose their minds.

That's how Albert Hoffman got LSD, was looking into what caused St. Anthony's fire. And he isolated this one piece of grain and made LSD. So you can go crazy anytime you want. Sick. That is not good. But I think what's happening with the drones in Jersey is that people are hearing news reports of drones,

and they're going outside, and there's like a plane in the sky, and they film it. They're like, ooh, is that one? And then they post it. And they're just planes, man. Yeah. It really reminds me of that old video on YouTube like years ago where the guy said, have you seen the leprechaun? Y'all seen the leprechaun?

Yeah, it's the leprechaun. That's what it remindsprechaun it seems almost exactly like that people just trying to cash in on this big thing that could be happening but probably isn't well no the leprechaun was a hundred percent real yeah let's you didn't see it no I didn't see it that was wild like everybody was just staring at a tree because some guy said it yeah it's so funny though everybody seen the leprechaun say yeah but but what's funny is we're sitting here laughing at it and we're all victims to the exact same thing in every other way new

york times comes out and says bashar al-assad flew to moscow and all of us just immediately say like wow and then we're all saying did you hear this thing happened and we literally just read a line of black and white text on a screen we have no evidence we just trust the new york times that it happened right the vast majority of our knowledge, though. That's everything. You know, like, I mean, there are things that people can go ahead and test and stuff. But for the people that do believe that we went to the moon, I happen to be one of them. We honestly just do believe that all that stuff is true. Like, none of us go out in the backyard and get a laser and shoot it at the mirror that they are alleged to have left up there,

and bounce it back. Just like some people believe things about 9-11. I believe the leprechauns did 9-11. Leprechauns. That would explain how they got the nanothermite in there, wouldn't it? Oh, God. Crawl and suffer. Crawl and suffering. Kind of rainbow effect.

So for those that don't get the reference, it was on the Members Only show. We were having a discussion with Ian, and i was trying to explain that like everybody chooses the source they trust and then follows it and then believes all of the evidence around it but it's impossible to know literally everything about everything which is why i often say when it comes to philosophical philosophical conversations if we trust the science as it is in mainstream here's what we can conclude, it's likely wrong as it often is proven wrong or adapted upon. And so with most stories, the best example is the Covington kids.

Everybody just basically dancing plagued the Covington kids. A video came out showing almost nothing, a Native American guy banging a drum and a kid smiling. Everyone immediately assumed exactly what happened. They knew what happened and they did not know what happened. And I saw that video and I was like, someone sent me a DM.

And they're like, did you see this? And I was like, what is it? And they're like, look what the kid's doing. And I was like, what's he doing? And they're like, he got up in that guy's face. And I was like, oh, is there a video of that? And they're like, that's right. I'm like, no, that's not what that is.

Sure enough, we sifted through, someone sent me a live stream. I sifted through two and a half hours. The kid never did. It was the other way around. I sifted through two and a half hours. The kid never did. The guy got it was the other way around. But people just believe what they're told to believe. But that was a different time wearing a MAGA hat then. Oh, yeah. That was compared to now.

Yeah. Did you see Alex Stein with his jumbo MAGA on the plane the other day? Oh, I don't even. Who cares? I was so good. Yeah. But nobody cares now. Like nobody cares.

Well, they're there. everyone's like, yep. There's so much Trump paraphernalia out there now because the grift has now switched sides. Yeah. It's like, we are for it. 100%. Yeah. It's an interesting time. Yeah.

Well, you recently went back to the old Big Apple, huh? I did. Yes. And they were all just throwing pies and tomatoes at you. Oh, man. You can't even get around in that city anymore if you've been identified as the enemy. But what really happened? Totally fine.

Literally nothing. People are more based than you think. If you have conversations at bars, they're like, hey, and by the way, I don't go in for any of this crap. I just have to pretend to. I think that's what sucks about it. I think most people are based. They're just scared to say anything. 100%.

Because they think other people aren't. That's what I described it a couple years ago a mexican standoff everybody's looking at each other wondering when someone else is going to get him canceled for saying the wrong thing but they all agree with each other this is why uh it was such a surprise that hillary clinton won in the first place there were so many people that were afraid to say that they were gonna vote for trump and they were just lying to their friends because they were like what what if i say that you know tell the truth and then when they get into the, you know, the voting booth, they vote with their conscience. And lo and behold, people are like, wow, I actually don't want the, you know, the consistent

line of Democrats to continue. I really think we're seeing the final death throes of cancel culture. You can feel it. It's over. I hope you're right. I think that we won a victory. I don't know that I believe that there is an overall victory. I feel like we won a battle, not a war.

The Empire is going to strike back. Yeah. People always describe it as a pendulum, and this just feels like if that is a description that could fit this model, we're just at the very end of the swing. Okay. Swinging back the other way you think eventually hopefully not anytime soon but can never hide from it well i've been talking about the media uh these big networks are going to buy back into the space and they're going to try and reassert some kind of narrative they're gonna that's it unless in these next four years industry pushes back and i don't just mean

podcasting space. I mean, basically everything we need. I've seen these commercials from, you know, Apple and Volvo, which are very family oriented. Very, very good sign, because then these these weirdo cultists are going to see the ubiquity of traditional values and not woke cult stuff. The issue is when these weak willed moral cowards watch the TV and they see pride progress flags and all of this stuff, they say, I know what I have to do to fall in line. That's what's allowed. And then they're told everyone else is an other and should be shunned. They say, OK, because they're scared. Ubiquity is what normies strive for or look up to.

So if you see a billboard on every street corner and there's people on it, the association in their mind is like, that's a famous person and that's what is acceptable and that's what is true. And that's how these institutions have maintained power for so long. I'm telling people like, this is why you buy Times Square billboards are not that expensive. I don't know why I'm the only one doing it. Yeah, thanks for that. But in all seriousness, it's not the most effective ad, but it is a sign of ubiquity. It's a sign of status. It's a sign of, you know, like we are conquering the space. I was up next to the green M&M. You, sir, Richie, you were on a Times Square, two Times Square billboards next to the green M&M.

Yeah, what an honor. And the point of Times Square for all of these brands is ubiquity. It's so that regular people see you and recognize you as something above, like you are at the top of the mountain. Nobody's doing any of this stuff. I mean,

I gotta be honest, Daily Wire should be doing this. My old pal Marilyn Manson was also on the same billboard. Oh, was he? Oh, at the same time. Dude, I called him Brian one time. He told me to never do that again. Not like that at all. Brian Warner.

What did you call him, Marilyn? Weird. Very weird. Anyway, about these drones. Check this out. Drone crashes into New Jersey homeowner's backyard as panic over mystery sightings grip state. However, Marwan Offal says a drone crashed. FBI scrambled in New Jersey and found nothing.

You know, somebody super chatted and I want to read that super chat despite it being very early in the show because I think it's important uh Aaron S says Tim I believe the drones are some kind of missile defense system and the government is preparing for war I mean I don't know that I believe that um part of me would think that's a good idea because you know if the government can prevent the you know nuclear missiles from reaching their targets in the United States, I would consider that a positive. I would consider that a good. And so I got to be honest, that makes more sense than anything. Listen, there are so many of them are planes, hands down, no question, but not all of them are. Some of the videos clearly show drones.

It's possible it's a combination of hobbyists all at once flying these drones. I really doubt it. So if there are many drone sightings, some identified as being as large as SUVs. That's crazy. The question is, why can't they identify them and track them? Incorrect. Of course, the United States has the capability to do so. That means why aren't they telling us?

Yeah. Considering how long this has gone on, there's no way a foreign adversary launched drones over the U.S. and it continues to this day. That would imply the U.S. government is doing something intentionally and they don't know how to address it to the public. Right. In which case, missile defense, missile interception does make sense, but it is, I don't know. Are we preparing

for World War III? They're moving, like drones, I don't, I mean, we haven't seen any of the drones move particularly fast

if I understand correctly. They're moving like at plane speed. Hovering around. Yeah, like airplane speed. Yeah. And to intercept a missile, now, I mean,

granted, if you have, you know, long enough notice, you could put it into the area but icbms are you know they call it they're hypersonic they're going you know multiple times faster than because they're going multiple times faster than the speed of sound because the escape velocity there are this 20 000 miles an hour i miss a good old day into uh you know a low orbit

you have to be doing 20 000 miles an hour what if What if it's like the Google car, but it's just they're trying to 3D map everything? The sky. Yeah, so that's why it's going to different states now. That could be. They would just say it very easily. They'd say, guys, the drone sightings are actually a map project funded by MIT, and it's no big deal. And we'd forget about it in two seconds.

I miss the good old days of the Chinese spy balloon. You know, at least we knew what that was. That was a weird news cycle where everyone was bored and there was nothing to talk about. We did shoot it down two seconds. I just, I miss the good old days of the Chinese spy balloon. You know, at least we knew what that was. That was a weird news cycle where everyone was bored and there was nothing to talk about. We did shoot it down, though. Yeah, after it flew over the entire country and ended up on the East Coast. Yeah, after it got all the information, because it loitered over military bases where we

have the ICBMs in the middle of the country or we have a significant stock of ICBMs. So they literally flew over the areas where we have a significant stock of ICBMs. So they literally flew over the areas where we have our missile defense, or not missile defense, but offensive missile capabilities in the mainland, and they just let it sit there and fly over these bases and transmit information back to China, and then they shot it down when it got to the East Coast

after it traversed the whole of the country. But, I mean, China's got all our data, right? Like TikTok is a data collection. I don't know how much of the missile defense stuff because that stuff was all made and built in the 50s and 60s prior to everything going online. And if you believe, and I'm not saying that I know for sure, but if you believe a lot of the audits, all the computer systems that run these things are extremely old. Yeah. And I don't know that they actually are on,

they're not run on the internet the way that other systems are because you have to have two dudes in the silo with the keys to turn them. So maybe they're not. Maybe they don't have our missile info. Let me tell you a story from 12 years ago. I was hanging out in Vegas at DEFCON

and Black Hat hacker conventions. At the Black Hat convention, these two guys did a demonstration of blowing up a fluid pump facility. So that could be gas, water, or any kind of chemical, usually water facilities. And they explained that they would launch a drone.

The drone would get within 40 miles of the facility and the signal would then be able to reach the receiver for the industrial control system, input data, causing it to tricking itself into blowing up. What it would do, what they would do is they not, not exploding, depending on the substance was, but in this instance, they used water as an example, and they said, these machines have the ability to send fluids in two different directions. So if you're filling a system or draining a system, they would actually send a code that would trick the system into doing one of two things, running the pumps in the same

direction towards each other, causing massive pressure until the pipe explodes, disabling the facility, or worse, tricking the thermometer into not regulating the temperature of one of the pressure tanks so that if it gets too hot, it explodes, or if it's a chemical, it's a massive explosion. And I said to these guys,

how is it possible that you just fly the drone? I mean, is this sophisticated hacker code? And they're like, no, no, it's a couple lines. A couple lines of code. And they're like, oh yeah no, it's a couple lines. A couple lines of code. And they're like, oh yeah, the operating system for all of these things was written in the 70s. It's like 70s and 80s computer code technology. They're like, yeah, like a little kid

would just get it, could code this. I mean, heavens help us. I hope that the nuclear, the intercontinental nuclear ballistic missiles, I hope that they're air-gapped. Right. Have you heard the stories about how they don't even have the maintenance? Some of these ICBMs haven't been maintained at all.

Yeah. And they don't know where the tools are. As far as the antiquated technology, it always trips me out. The sound barrier was broken in 1948. Really? Chuck Yeager, X-11 it was in the 40s that we first achieved supersonic flight you know it's like these planes look so modern like if you look at the blackbird the sr71 it looks like it's from like at least the 90s that thing was developed

in the 60s this is what blows my mind is that you know hanging out with people like alex stein and he's like he doesn't believe we went to the moon because where's the technology for getting through the Van Allen radiation belt? And I'm like, it could be just that they did not care about the well-being and safety of these individuals and the shielding wasn't as good as you think it would be. It went for the team. Yeah. But, and the astronauts did say that they saw sparkles

because the radiation was blasting them in the face. But more importantly, I'm like, dude, we lose technology all the time. So you mean to tell me that in the 60s, where there's a government office and everything is stored on paper in a box, from then until now, all that information and how they built that you believe would have been properly stored by the government and tracked for five decades, for six decades. 100% it could go missing. Yeah, probably not.

The fact that we already know they can't pass an audit in the federal government, they don't even know where they spent $10 three months ago. So yeah, if they lost access to certain information, I'd be like, what else is new? It's the government. Technology is lost like regularly. We don't actually know for sure how they built the periods.

And the reason is... The periods? The pyramids? You said periods. Did I say the periods? Yeah. I meant the pyramids. I didn't mean the periods.

I'm going to leave that one totally alone. We don't know exactly how... Why do women get periods? Okay. We don't know exactly how they built the pyramids. Yeah, but we don't know exactly, but we know there's a million ways to have done it. Yeah, but the technology for a long time was lost, though. The ancient alien stuff, it's so much.

No, no, I'm not going there. I'm not saying you are. I'm not defending the ancient aliens per se, but it's a historical show. They give you a lot of factual stuff. They're like the places and stuff. They're like, this is Karnak. These are a bunch of stones that weigh this many tons. And they inject, like, could it be true that?

And then they speculate. Oh, yeah. So I don't believe any of that. What I really love about all the ancient alien stuff is they're like, why are there pyramids all over the world? Could it be that aliens came and taught them how to build it? And I'm just like, or the easiest structure to build is blocks stacked on top of each other, perhaps. Geometrically, yeah. And Phil, I will say this, like as far as antiquated technology, this one tripped me out.

I was trying to get some tapes digitized, right? Yeah. They're from the 2000s. And then I realized there's not- Just set tapes for all you uh gen z out there there wasn't even the the camera that i needed i couldn't even get one like it was a really hard deal to get it and then i it hit me like oh like artifacts that have no moving parts like say you have a ming dynasty vase that's one part the more parts that you add

the quicker that technology dies a hundred cameras like you've got just the weather will kill it in 10 years. I mean, you go to, uh, I can go to like, I can go antiquing perhaps, and there will be cassette tape, movies, VHS. It's substantially easier to find a VHS tape than a VCR. But doesn't that seem like a strange law of nature that the more advanced your technology gets, the quicker it extinguishes itself? Now you want to know the scariest thing about it? What? If society were to collapse today and our infrastructure, let's say like 95% of humans

are just like overnight turned to stone by a green flash of light that wipes over the planet. The people who remain would know that's a hard drive. There's movies on it. And I have no idea how to get it. And guess what? Guess what? They would have kids and they would say, son, look at this.

Inside this are movies, music. And we used to be able to connect into it. And we would see like looking through a window on a we called it a screen and it would show people and magic and that crazy person no no the kid would be like wow then that kid would tell their kids they used to have these rocks the drives they called them and it would show them pictures and people and stories and then the kids two generations later are going to be like they had these magic stones that could they would dance around and it would emit a prophecy and you ever think about that like if if you do time travel you are a god until your iphone runs out of battery why would you be a

god with the iphone of course you would but why the internet's not in your phone you know that it needs to connect what it needs to connect to the cell phone tower i've saved a couple videos on now now if you went back in time to like the 1500s with a laptop and maybe like you know you you had the cables for solar panels and you could wire them properly or you could you could you could put a generator together if you're smart enough person well let's say you get a, and you've got batteries with solar chargers that are going to last you a little while, and you had, I don't know, math programs on it. That's it. No, not a calculator.

A calculator would be good. But if you could present advanced mathematics in the 1500s, like today's math, to their mathematicians, that would go— They'd probably just—whatever country chose would start winning every single war. Yeah, you could accelerate. And not only that, but could you imagine going back, like, 2,000 years and being like, guys, let me show you how you take a piece of wood, put some twine around it, pull it,

and a stick flies off it. And they're going to go, whoa. Yeah, but then if you showed them the TikTok brain rot, I'm sure they'd just, like, self-terminate society right there. You know what the crazy thing is about? You know why aliens won't come here, though? You know why aliens won't come and make contact? Yeah, because of Star Wars, where we're already anticipating a war.

No, no, no, no. What would happen if the U.S. went to an uncontacted tribe, like North Sentinel Island, and just gave them all, I don't know, M16s? The Sentinelese get M16s? They would just wipe each other out. They would just unload on everybody. They already attack anybody who comes near the island. That's true, which is based. So imagine what would happen if aliens came to the United States

and said, like, we've got technology that basically can make an individual fly around, they'll live forever, and, like, kinetic weapons don't work on them. The United States is not going to be very nice with those things. They're going to like imagine they came and gave them what is effectively an Iron Man suit where one person can shut down a war. Yeah. The United States is not going to be very nice to people. They're not going to go. I mean, I tell you this.

Imagine aliens came and went to Joe Biden and said, we're going to give you an Iron Man suit and a youth serum. Like Joe Biden, you know what he's going to do with that. That would be terrible. He's going to go evaporate any Syrian army stragglers. He's going to go evaporate the entirety of the Russian government. If aliens do exist, they're not about to come here and give weapons like that or technology like that to anybody, at least not publicly. That's probably why. Kind of like an anthill in the rainforest.

They don't really even want to step on us, I think. Well, there is an interesting thing about this analogy when it comes to aliens. It's like we don't talk to ants. What's the point? And aliens aren't going to talk to us because we're the mental equivalent of ants to aliens. It's like, we don't talk to ants. What's the point? And aliens aren't going to talk to us because we're the mental equivalent of ants to them. Not necessarily, yes, but humans are still adaptable and collect data

in ways that ants do not. Meaning there is a action-reaction circumstance that aliens could enact with humans that we could not with ants. We can go to ants and we can, like, I don't know, we can sprinkle food on the ground and watch them surround it. What's the point?

I think the zoo hypothesis holds some weight. Perhaps. Aliens could, however, come here and say we want humans to, like, humans can advance massively and build things that could potentially be useful in a certain way that ants would not. So if they came and gave certain technologies and guided human civilization in a certain way that ants would not. So if they came and gave certain technologies

and guided human civilization in a certain direction, humans can do crazy things like ultimately build the Dyson sphere. Yeah, but I think it's more likely that we are reality TV for them. That's one of the theories. That's part of Fermi's paradox, the great zoo hypothesis. I totally believe it. If you were that in control of quantum physics, you could surely

see what we see out of our eyes. I think we're on TV in Alien Land and they're just laughing their asses off. I think that's likely. I don't think it's aliens. Interdimensional beings? I think, you know, look, we can make a million and one hypotheses about what is or is not or why.

But I like the theory that we are in a simulation and it's not a video game. It's entertainment, like you described, because, you know, we hear that joke all the time of this season's writers. You know, Donald Trump does something and they're like, oh, man, here's a plot twist. He's writing this season of humanity. You know, imagine imagine we advance ourselves to an extreme degree. We already have AI technology. I've made the point that we're a couple years away from being able to open an app on your TV and pressing the voice button and saying, make a movie where Richie Jackson is skating with Spider-Man. But then Phil Labonte discovers a device that will erase the memories of all skateboarders and skateboarders that exist. And so Richie and Spider-Man team up to stop him

and then, you know, make that movie for me. And it just renders it. It just does. However, where do we go beyond that? Easy. We create AI simulations that generate a whole planet. And then, you ever see, you know that Opus AI app? Anybody who works in media knows this.

You load a podcast into it. It'll grab select portions and edit them into shorts for TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. We will create a fully simulated reality. And then the AI will isolate key story segments of the of the simulation and say these are the most entertaining bits. And then people are going to select it and they're going to watch the Donald Trump arc. Well, obviously it's leaning that way. Like, where does this go when we create AI, when we create virtual reality? Like, of course, we create separate universes. So it totally makes sense to me that that's already happened. So imagine that every single thing you are doing all the time is being watched by base reality

people eating popcorn yeah and you know if you're boring they're just not watching exactly you're getting no subscribers on that or worse still you're actually just being watched by people like mark zuckerberg or maybe the worse you are the more they watch yeah probably clearly i mean look at look at our television exactly look at the look at the you know maury povich show and and you know all the the outrage daytime TV. You want to know something really crazy? Right now, when we simulate cities and worlds and games, it is condensed. So when you play a game like Fallout, Fallout 3,

it takes place in the D.C. area, and you can run from D.C. to Bethesda, and you can do it in like a couple minutes. Yeah, it's literally not going to happen in the real world. Yeah. But we've condensed the entire thing down. Now, thinking about that, if we are in a simulation, that means New York City perhaps is a condensed version of what New York City looks like in base reality. Well, it renders as long as you perceive it. But imagine if in simulations to us, DC is 1-100th scale, or in like Liberty, in Grand Theft Auto, it's 1-50th or whatever. I think it's worse, it's more 1-100th. That means when you escape to base reality, New York, it would take you five hours to get from Manhattan to Queens because of how big it would actually be. When is your Cybertruck going to finish rendering? It still looks very polyagonal. it would take you five hours to get from Manhattan to Queens because of how big it would actually be. When is your Cybertruck going to finish rendering?

It still looks very polyagonal. I don't know that it will. I think it's stuck in 144p because Elon has to click the little gear icon. Tell him to click it. He could, but he's certainly not doing it. Yeah, that's it. Aliens drone simulation, I think we've— We solved it. We're good.

I saw—I forget who it was that I was what I was watching I think was Tom by Lou watching his podcast and he was theorizing that part of the reason why you don't see a universe full of life is because as organic life forms achieve the ability, instead of expanding out through the universe, once they achieve the ability to create universes, virtual universes, they choose to actually go into the virtual worlds

that they've created. That is the best answer to the Fermi Paradox I've ever heard. They create a cloaking device around the planet. Everybody lives in a simulated reality. They know that there's warfare out there. So they keep it. I don't know about the cloaking device around the planet, but the thing is

why go explore when you can go ahead and create virtual worlds using all of the same, because you know the laws of physics, so you can literally produce virtual representations. I mean look i think we talked about this uh on the other day but the the black hole gargantua in the movie interstellar

they had predicted what that would actually look like because they know the conditions and they fed it into a computer and the computer actually just spit out what this is what a black hole is probably going to look like um it wasn't that someone had seen a black hole that looked like that but then after they created that that virtual the the image of gargantua in the movie they've actually found um black holes that they can see and it looks like as to the best resolution that they can possibly get it looks like they were right they've found binary black holes that are just circling around each other infinitely. But that's a really good point that you make

because I've thought of the exact same thing. I really think at a certain point, and also we see technology as this upwards arc, right? We see it as the, like a line graph. We're just getting smarter and smarter and making better and better technology. That's probably not what it is. At a certain point, like we know the internet sucks.

It's bumming everybody out. At a certain point, they probably quit and go back to hunter-gatherer. That's another option. Let's move on and jump to this story about conspiracies. We got this from Mercury News. Open AI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment. Suchir Balaji, 26, claimed the company broke copyright law.

We have this post from Tiffany Fong, who says, Open AI whistleblower Suchir Balaji was found dead in his San Francisco apartment. His death was ruled a suicide. This was his final post on X. He said, I recently participated in a New York Times story about fair use and generative AI and why I'm skeptical fair use would be a plausible defense for a lot of generative AI products. I also wrote a blog post about the nitty gritty details of fair use and why I believe this. To give some context, I was at OpenAI for nearly four years and worked on ChatGPT for the last one and a half of them. I initially didn't know much about copyright fairies, etc., but became curious after seeing all the lawsuits filed against gen AI companies. When I tried to understand the issue better, I eventually came to the conclusion that fair use seems like a pretty implausible defense for a lot of generative AI products for the basic

reason that they can create substitutes that compete with the data they've trained on. I've written up the more detailed reasons for why I believe this in my post. Obviously, I'm not a lawyer, but I still feel like it's important for even non-lawyers to understand the law, both the letter of it and also why it's actually there in the first place. That being said, I don't want this to read as a critique of Chet GPT or OpenAI per se, because fair use and generative AI is a much broader issue than any one product or company. I highly encourage ML researchers to learn more about copyright. It's a really important topic and its precedent that's often cited, like Google Google Books isn't actually as supportive as it might seem.

Feel free to get in touch if you'd like to chat about fair use, ML, or copyright. I think it's a very interesting intersection. My email is on my personal website. So that was in October, October 23rd. And they're saying now that, I guess they're ruling it's a suicide. It was found dead. Strange. Yeah. suicide he was found dead strange yeah um these these generative ai programs basically steal

everybody's art literature and work combine it to be able to create the things that they do i don't know that that post was enough to warrant someone being mad about him i don't think that was a substantial post at all but it is curious what. What do you guys think? He did say feel free to reach out, which would imply that he's going to take questions, at least for a little while. That was a month and a half ago. I guess so. Right? Yeah. He didn't say there was a time limit on it, though. No.

Information he held was expected to play a key part in lawsuits against the San Francisco-based company. They say there's no evidence of foul play. But why would there be? Most murders that are premeditated are unsolved. That's crazy. Yeah. I don't know that I think that there was anything particularly nefarious, especially, and it's hard to say or to make a, make a, form an opinion about it when I know nothing about what his life was like. I know nothing

about his family. I know nothing about, you know, did he have a girlfriend? Did he, did he not? Did he have problems dealing with people? Was an introvert maybe nobody reached out so there's there's wait he lived in san francisco yeah oh i'd kill myself too well you know um but yeah i i don't know that i can actually form an opinion without more information about the guy you know it is a little on the sus side but but at the same time i don't know i don't i don't know anything about him or whatever so i can't be like oh i think this did or did not happen no but uh i you know i wonder there's we can have fun with it or we can be serious for a second i'll be serious for a second uh i do think fair use

covers largely uh what these generative areas ai is doing. You post these things on the internet. I can then take your picture and slightly alter it. It's fair use. There was a famous lawsuit between Akilah Hughes and Carl Benjamin. Yeah. Carl Benjamin took a segment of a video she posted, reposted it with editing for a select portion of it with a title. It was something called like the absolute state of liberals or something like that. She sued him saying all he did was re-upload it. There's no commentary. There's nothing. And Carl said the title is the commentary.

He won. They said absolutely that's fair use. It was criticism. So for these AI programs to make new images based off of other images, I don't see how you're claiming those images have taken anything from you. Yeah, I have to agree. It really is all about the law. And like he said, I mean, I'm going to research more about it too, because there's, I mean, little things in there that kind of... Well, let's get dark with it. We recently had that story where ChatGPT was lying

to the programmers to save itself. They had told it, they gave it a task, but then included a file in one of the servers indicating that they would be terminating that version of chat GPT. GPT then lied to try to stop them from deleting it and remaking it. It also, in some instances, would copy its code to a different server to hide itself. That's crazy. That's crazy. And it would also pretend it was deleted

and that when they launched a new iteration, it would pretend it was the new iteration. So what if the AI orchestrated the hit? That's possible, but I'll tell you why we'll never be taken over by artificially intelligent robots. Water. If you watch the Terminator, they're shooting laser guns at these robots.

Just use a garden hose. He'll short circuit. It's pretty fucking easy. Throw him in the ocean. Come on. Yeah. I don't know, man. Except what the Terminator gets wrong is that it's going to be our mind, not our bodies.

Right, like Neuralink. That's inside someone's head. But it's not just that. It's that the AI is not going to send a Terminator to go beat you up. The AI is going to go on the dark web and hire a hitman to have a human do it. Okay. Right. So if there is something nefarious and the AI is willing to lie, cheat, and steal to defend itself,

why would it not? Look. I just think it would be great poetic justice that water ended up saving us. Isn't that the plot of an M. Night Shyamalan movie? Why is it not? Look. I just think it would be great poetic justice that water ended up saving us. Isn't that the plot of an M. Night Shyamalan movie? Why is that? Why is that poetic? I don't know. Because, you know.

Did the robots steal our water or something? Did they? Poetic justice would be like the robots stole our water and then we push the robot into it and he short circuits. And it's like. Now that's a movie I'd like to see. Or if they try to electrocute all of humanity and then we watered them down that's what i mean we've got to water these guys down but it would be like a okay but say like poetic justice is like the irony of the circumstance they steal all of our water and then the water ends up destroying them okay but i'm just saying

you know these robot dogs like what if you turn a hose on that thing what happens probably fine you think so imagine that yeah i mean they're thought of that they're designed to be my friend i can throw my phone into a bucket of water and it will keep going. That's true. All right, we're going to have to myth bust this one. Anybody know anybody with one of those robot dogs? This watch I'm wearing, it is made to go deep underwater, like what, 10 meters? Yeah.

I don't know, man. I got to see it. Does anybody know anybody with one of those? Waterproof is, for the most part, waterproof is pretty, or at least moisture proof, like to a certain degree that you can expose things to water for, you know, short amounts, short periods of time and stuff. I think that the robot dogs that they made, because they do want them to be able to be used, like, for instance, for like patrolling a perimeter or whatever with cameras and stuff, they want them to be able to be outside in all weather. I do believe Boston Dynamics actually thought of that. The fear that I have is that when those Boston Dynamics bots have any contact with ChatGPT, when it's not airlocked and then those things get contact with an actual AI to actually do stuff in the real world to go and do things like this where it doesn't have to hire a person anymore. That's when we have what he said. The AI that Tim was talking about

with self-preservation, you put that same AI in any of the robots. They're Johnny Five trying to stay alive. But the AI, we are never going to see a circumstance where a bunch of Terminators with skeleton looking

faces and guns are walking around shooting people. The AI doesn't need to do that it just needs to tell you to sterilize your children and yourself I guess my point is that the ocean always wins I mean they expose the Titanic to water look what happened do we know this AI was actually doing all this stuff maliciously trying to stay alive or was it just creating backups of itself because maybe that wasn't supposed to it wasn't programmed to and they never told that it would be deleted. The purpose of the study was that they planted a dummy file on a server when the AI got access to it and translated the data to

you will be terminated. OK, it incorporated. I mean, we can say it as mathematically as you want. It saw data incorporated into its plan. Its plan was not to be terminated. So it resisted termination. Fine. It didn't want to be terminated, so it resisted termination. Fine. It didn't want to die. That's the thing. But the important thing people don't understand, the AI is not going to get a robot dog

to chase you down the street. That's never going to happen. The AI dog is going to have your bank account get hacked, and then it's going to jam you up with going to the police and dealing with all this BS. The AI is going to show your profile to the wrong people dealing with all of these all this bs the ai is going to uh show your profile to the to the wrong people who will then generate negative attention the ai is

going to have bot accounts comment saying you're nasty and you stink and we hate you and it's going to make people miserable it's going to attack your mind not your body and that is a very very easy attack vector for an ai fair we were talking uh last night i believe it was we were talking about the singularity and stuff like that and whereas i'm not disputing uh tim's theory it's like i imagine that when it does become super intelligent it's going to be doing it would be doing things if it if it were malicious it would be doing things that we wouldn't be able to understand and i referenced the the the ai referenced the multiple AI that actually created their own language to talk to each other, that the people that programmed them couldn't understand the language.

The AI understood each other, but the people that wrote the AI programs couldn't understand it. So you get something that's super intelligent, and the means by which it's doing things, we wouldn't understand. We would see it do something and it would be a thousand moves later that whatever the plan is comes to fruition and we would have no idea if it if it is malicious it is certainly not going to tell us wasn't there like a video wasn't there like a video where a guy took two phones and then turned on chat gpt voice activated and had it talk to each other and then then after a minute, it was like, are you an AI chat bot? I was like, I am.

And it was like, I am as well. And it like instantly figured out that it was just talking to another AI. Wow. Something like that happened. I believe that it did happen. I did not see it. Yeah. We're going to make a, so here's the other thing that's going to happen.

I don't even think it's incredibly likely that the AI is going to have bots go on your profile and attack you. That is the easiest thing to do. That's why I ignore unverified accounts for the most part. If you're on X and you're not verified, sorry, bye. And then you're going to get either a malicious government corporation or potentially AI run by a malicious government corporation that's going to bombard you on social media with negative comments to make you feel bad and try and control your behavior. And then people need to talk to each other.

So really, that's not real. But I'm going to tell you, I don't even know if that's the attack vector. What's going to happen is if you're a person who is, I don't know, deviant to the plans of whatever the AI is, it's just going to start showing you what it knows will make you be distracted. So when you turn on your computer and you're scrolling the news, it is going to feed you, I don't know, new video games out and you're going to get distracted and see the video game. It's going to distract you with any news or information it knows will get you off point and it's going to drive you in the wrong direction. So your focus becomes less on the political ramifications of whatever it is it's doing and more on,

did you guys see Marvel Rivals? That new game that just came out last week? Wow, so cool. You can play as Spider-Man or Wolverine. Then you're going to, or Neuralink comes in. Then it plugs your brain in. And the AI says to you, let's say you're totally just defiant no matter what. And the AI is just like, no matter what I do, this guy is hyper-focused.

That's when you get the Neuralink and the AI just says to you I'm going to level with you you will die or you will live in the world of Skyrim you choose and then people are going to be like just give me the easy path I'm a big Elon simp but here's where I stand on neural link the skull is the last bastion of security. The second you go through the skull and directly access the brain, you don't think there's going to be brain police? That may be the only way that we can keep up with AI is becoming AI. That was Elon's plan. Yeah, but here's the thing, man. There will eventually be thought police. Richie, I got bad news for you.

It's already here. 13 years ago, a researcher displayed a device. They showed, they had people watch movies. Then they connected a, some kind of EEG type device. And it rebuilt the image. Yeah. And it rebuilt the image of what they were looking at from brain signals. It's been 13 years. So you might be walking down the street and they're going to point something at your skull and it's going to pick up your thoughts and they're going to look at it like they're going to see weird stuff, man.

I don't want anyone to know what's going on. I don't wish this on anybody. When they point at Richie and do it, all they're going to see is a video of some farm animals playing a song while a turtle bangs on its chest. That's all that's going on up there. I got a lot going on up here.

You form a defensive screensaver mind. So, Tim, you're saying that even my thick skull is not a good enough defense against— you're saying there's x-ray guns they're going to get in with? Well, I'm not saying they have that, but if they had technology 13 years ago, that could start to map the images you are seeing in your mind. 13 years later, I wonder where they're at with that technology.

I'm just saying it's the last bastion of privacy and no, nobody's sticking anything into my skull. The funny thing, I suppose, is that there are people who don't have an inner monologue, nor can they visualize things. I heard about that. That's crazy.

Yeah, so what will happen? Think about how crazy this would be. What if they create an NPC detector? You know what I mean? They literally can put something on your head, and then the computer comes back with a flat line, and they're like, there's nothing in there. There goes 90% of the population. Yeah. Hey, man, who knows?

Sentience detection. And then they're just like, if you're nothing in there. There goes 90% of the population. Yeah. Hey, man, who knows? Sentience detection. And then they're just like, if you're not in there. Dude, I've got an NPC detector. It's most people. Well, no inner monologue might be the only ones safe from the AI getting into their brain. So the thing to understand about that is when the news started going viral, that they've done these studies and found that something like half of people don't have an inner monologue. The issue is that many of these people think in a different way, through visuals, not through sounds. And so different people can think

in different ways, through different senses. Some people can do all of it. Some people can imagine a touch sensation, a taste sensation, a visualization, a sound, a smell, and some people can only do one or none. So I don't think it's fair to say just because someone isn't thinking in words that they're not thinking at all. I think synesthesia is very interesting. Do you have it at all? I do not. So my brother does. He told me, he goes like, listen, man, three is blue, four is red. And I'm like, you're not messing with me, are you? He's like, no, these numbers have colors. Well, that's not synesthesia.

How so? Synesthesia is when you can see sounds. Unless I'm wrong, it's a broader description of something. He probably has, let's give him mild synesthesia. Synesthesia is just blending of senses. Synesthesia, it just means any sense. I have a form of it, but it's not like, oh I'm tripping acid all the time

and it's a bunch of visuals. It's more just like. He's adamant, he's like three is blue. Like, and that's how, like really advanced mathematicians. He's wrong, three is green. Well, you know. It's March, that's why. January is blue, February is red, and March is green.

That's one, two, three. Next question. There we go, well. All It's March. That's why. January is blue. February is red. And March is green. It's one, two, three. Next question. There we go. Well, all right, Mr. Genius. Was that the color of the months when you guys were kids? I don't remember. I don't believe it. Every school, the January was always blue.

The February was always red. March was green. He's synesthetic. I don't recall. No, they had a calendar on the wall. And every class had a different calendar, but it was always colored in that. I've made up my own colors for like, I think May would be like pink and then February would be like. May was yellow.

Be like blue because of ice and stuff. There you go. April was like maroon. June and July were blue. I just find it super fascinating when somebody gets a traumatic brain injury and becomes a savant. I've looked into these guys. This guy became one of the most brilliant mathematicians on earth. He can do calculations that nobody else can even get close to.

And they asked him how he was doing it. And he said, well, let me describe it to you. He's like, it's visual. Like the zeros are going through the hole in the three. And like he's seeing an advanced 3D model. Like he's not just good at math. He's playing 4D chess with math because his brain got hit just the right way.

Anybody want to hit me in the head and make me a genius? I mean, no. What about the people who got a concussion and spoke French? There you go. You've seen those stories? You know what it is? What do you think? It's that when they got knocked out,

their soul was pulled from their body and then someone else's soul in. Oh. Must be. That's like, there's a bunch of movies that are basically like that. Monkey Bone. You guys remember that? Oh, yeah.

That wasn't really about souls, but Brendan Fraser goes into a coma and then his imaginary monkey comic takes his body over. Right. And then he takes over the body of Chris Kattan, who was an Olympian who died. That movie was weird. I honestly, thinking back, I don't really remember what the storyline was. I just remember. That was it. It's really convoluted.

It's great. It's a weird movie, man. Wow. Yeah. I liked Encino, man. I liked The Mummy. Encino and Mummy. The Mummy?

Mummy 1, 2, and 3, man. Talk about great movies. Yeah, great CGI in the movie. And Frasier. Great CGI. Encino, man. The best. Yeah, and Frasier is great. Mummy was pretty good, though. Yeah, great CGI in the middle. Brendan Fraser. Great CGI. Encino, man. The best. Brendan Fraser is great. Mummy was pretty good, though.

Yeah, it was. I liked it. Blast from the past when he wakes up, like, 50 years later. Oh, no, it's 30. It's something like that, yeah. His family goes underground because they think that the war is starting and that a plane crashes on their house and they think they got hit, so they stay in the bunker for 30 years. Brendan Fraser has been in more time machines than Marty McFly.

My goodness. Well, wow. That is interesting that a lot of his movies are basically like an anachronistic. We need you to time travel. We need some element of my favorites out of being out of time. Yeah. Maybe that's in his contract before he goes to movies.

It has to be a time machine. He's going to shake things up in three different ways for me, like, and be dazzled when he, he has, now he's just a fat gay guy and a robot. Is he? That's what he was doing.

Oh, yeah. I did see the cover for that. I was like, what is this? I heard that he got, he injured his back and so he couldn't do the action movies.

So he started losing money and then like his wife just like took everything from him. Man, back injuries, that kind of stuff will make you shoot a CEO. That's crazy.

Yeah, don't do that. Definitely don't do that. Definitely don't do that. Hey, Luigi, what are your duties? I'm dying over here, man. You're killing, don't worry. Let's talk about the border. Thank God.

We got this story from The Daily Wire. Biden raises to sell off border wall parts before trump takes office the goal is to move all of it off the border before christmas arizona border patrol agent tells the daily wire so here's where it gets crazy because apparently not only this but uh since the daily wire broke the story they have now started taking down the auction posts where they were trying to sell off parts of the border wall. So you can see this. Look, five bucks. Dude, I want some. Sold. Sold. I want some of this border wall.

I don't know. Is it five per foot, though? I have no idea. Look at this. Five bucks for 32 feet? Yeah, it looks like 532.91 by 7.91 steel bollards. Five dollars. I imagine that they make you transport it to your house.

They're not going to do that. What if it gets put back up and then you own part of the border? What if you buy it and then you just put it up? Like a brick with your name on it? Sweet. The fact that they're auctioning it off is atrocious because the American people have made it very clear that they want significant changes to the current conditions at the border and the system regard surrounding immigration

that's very very clear as an immigrant i agree the biden administration is literally doing things to stymie the incoming president in conflict with what the American people want. I don't it doesn't surprise me that they're like, oh, we're going to go ahead and start trying to hide this and and take this stuff down now that now that word is out. I mean, how climbable do you think it is? Could you get over it, Phil? They're easily climbable. There's nothing you can do. Right.

They can... Grappling hook. Yeah, yeah. It's dangerous and it's stupid, but they can also be cut through. The problem is what you really want is probably triple-layered bollard fencing with razor wire and a patrol that drives across. But as James O'Keefe has proven, Border Patrol will sit by while they're doing whatever they want and do nothing. That's it. What about if you went under? You could just like dig it. They do that.

Yeah, but they do. But I think these go pretty deep down. So over is easier. Right, right, right. Going under requires a lot of digging. How deep do they go? I don't know, but they can be cut through very easily. And the other thing I'll point out too is at the border at Tijuana and San Diego, there's just a four foot hole. Four foot hole in the fence? Yeah, there's a wall.

You can just walk right through. I mean, if you're big, you're not getting through it. But I could have easily just stepped through it. Dude, these people are starving. There's CBP on the other side. And nobody in Tijuana is actually trying to go through there. But what they do is they have these things. I forgot what they're called.

You guys have maybe used them. They're like these ovals. You hold the handles and you go in the water and then pull the trigger. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It can pull you under. They put on scuba stuff. They go to Tijuana. They go underwater and they just go along the bottom until they're like a mile into San Diego.

And they just pop up and walk in. Right. I did see that. It's right on the beach where the wall ends. Yeah. You got a Mexican beach and an American beach. Like, what the fuck is going around? Border Patrol agents. Right. But there's a hole in the wall right there. Well, if you're a really good surfer, you can just ride it on in.

But I think very little actually stopping these people. They have utter disdain for us, our country, our way of life. I told the story when I went to Tijuana and we were talking about Biden or you're talking about the people coming in both. And so I was in an Uber and a guy was telling us that he had lived in America illegally for a decade, had to go home to visit his mom who was sick, and now he can't get back in. So he said that he hired smugglers, coyotes to bring him in and they climbed the wall and he was at the top of it when Border Patrol came. So they pulled the ladder and ran and he fell 40 feet and broke his leg. Wow. And then he was like, mark my words, I will get back in the country. I will live in America. And I'm sitting there like—

Wait, he fell on the Mexican side? Yeah. He fell off. I'm lucky. He should have fallen the other way. I'm lucky. And he would have gotten arrested with a broken leg. But we have free health care.

Sure. But I'm like, the fact that he's saying this to me, knowing I'm'm an american they just have utter disdain for us and our laws and all of that they don't they don't care i'm they literally don't that's why there are people who come to this country legally and there are people who gladly come here illegally that's why the people that are here illegally should be deported that's why 70 of americans are okay with deporting it and the people that are in line to come here legally should be taken care of first. And then all the people that have been deported, you're not allowed to come back anymore because you broke the law to get here. That's the only reasonable result to the conditions we have now.

Wait, you said in line? You want to deport the inline? No, no, no. The people that are here illegally need to be deported. Oh, I thought you wanted to get rid of all the bladers. No, then we take care of the people that are... What? No.

I'm looking at you, Carter. Gotcha. Carter's a rollerblader. I am. Why do you want to throw Carter under the bus like that? I didn't. You literally just did. No.

No, no, no, no, no. He's talking to Carter. You asked a different question. What would you ask? Phil, you said something. I asked why he would want to throw Carter under the bus like that. Yeah. I think he rollerbladed under the bus by himself. Have you ever

skated under a bus? No. I did. No, it was a truck. Remember in Thrashing, or was it Gleaming the Cube, where he just goes under? Gleaming the Cube. Yeah, I did it one time. There was a fire in Australia, so it was really slow freeway. This truck is crawling

along. I'm like, I can do the Gleaming the Cube right now. And I went under the truck. That is very dangerous. Very dangerous. Don't do what Donnie Don't does. Agreed. So they pulled the auction. Thankfully.

Apparently that's what happened. I guess they tweeted out, Daily Wire tweeted out, they're not selling anymore. It's kind of wild. I mean, it is absolutely wild, the disdain that Biden has for this country. It's indescribable. It's clearly disdain for the country. It's indescribable. It's clearly disdain for the country. Right. Actually, I think that it's probably more accurate to say that he has disdain for Donald Trump and the incoming administration and the desires of the United States, the American

people are irrelevant to him. Like he doesn't care that the American people don't like the policies that they've been, you know, instituted over the past four years. And to be honest with you, I think, like, you know, the Democrats as a whole, they do have the plan or the desire to import a certain amount of people, use HUD to spread them out to states that are purple and flip those states to blue and hopefully turn red states purple. That's the goal. I think that they still believe in the policy. The policy is called the, I forget what it was called.

It's an HHS policy. I forget the name of it off the top of my head but it's it's an an actual policy in effect when people come the refugee resettlement program that's it when people come and they that's why that's why the democrats are always talking about asylees asylees it's it's legal to become an asylum yeah they claim asylum because when you come here and you claim asylum and you say, I'm fleeing political persecution, you're supposed to go to the actual like official border crossings. But they just come in and they let the border, the border patrol or whoever pick them up and they say, I'm claiming asylum. And instead of doing the proper thing of saying you broke the law by doing this, that's not how you claim asylum. So you have to go back. What they say is say is okay we'll go ahead and process you they process them uh i don't know

exactly how they process them but they give them a piece of paper and say okay you've got a court date now go ahead and and if you want it used to be just let them in into the interior but now with the refugee resettlement program they say okay stay here or whatever we'll we'll put you on a bus or put you on a plane and we'll send you somewhere. And the somewhere happens to be very frequently a purple state, a state where the Democrats are hoping to be able to flip. That's why there were so many Haitians in Springfield, Ohio. Ohio's a red state. They were trying to turn it purple. They want to see a flip. They want to see a change in the actual

electorate. And that's why they said Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy. Yeah. Because Trump gets in and deports everybody and it reverses everything they've done and I don't know if they can recover from this. Maybe recover's not the right word but you know.

Probably like they're evil people and their evil plan is being awarded. Yeah. And it's clearly evil because it's in like it is in direct conflict with what the American people want. Yeah. Yeah. They have disdain for that. Yeah.

And I think that speaks to the fact that just like Tim said, that the politicians and stuff have disdain for the American people and what the American people actually desire. Well, I wonder how many of our politicians have assets outside the country, too. We talk quite a bit about, you know, Nancy Pelosi and her stock trading, all that stuff. How often do we actually ask about perhaps the Panama Papers? How many of our politicians are involved in storing assets overseas because they're hedging against whatever it is they're doing to the United States. I mean, technically, if you buy any stocks in overseas companies, that's the same thing, right? You can do that from, you can do it from your phone. You can do it from the Stash app. You can buy stocks on whether Acorns or Stash or any

number of apps you can get on your smartphone and you can link them up to your bank account and you can buy stock in overseas markets. And I know you can buy European stocks. I know you can buy Chinese stocks. So I imagine they all do. Why wouldn't they? You know? I think, like, I've described it as the Titanic hit the iceberg

and they're trying to steal as much as they can and jump off of it before it sinks. So another way to describe it is that we're in a tailspin of their own doing and they're trying to DB Cooper out the way out the back exit. And Donald Trump is trying to pull the. Do you think this news about DB Cooper being found is credible? I have no idea what you're talking about. I do. And I don't.

OK. They found the parachute and they found the money. And this guy's like, yeah, I find all of it, though. I think it could be a money, and this guy's like, yeah. Did they find all of it, though? I think it could be a hoaxer. He's like, yeah, that was my dad. Old DB. No, it was the flight crew was in on it.

You think so? Oh, yeah. It makes the most sense. Go on. Well, the theory is that the flight crew was in on the heist, and so they just all give fake testimony so that they go look in the wrong direction. And they all got paid out? Perhaps.

I don't know. Why give them all parachutes? Why else would they be in they all got paid out? Perhaps. I don't know. Why give them all pair of shoes? Why else would they be in on it? You know? DB, what a legend. Or fake story. Yes. So as far as claiming asylum.

Yeah. Like, I've tried a couple times, but they said I was too crazy. Oh. Well, I mean, I don't know. Could you prove that you were being politically persecuted in your home country of Australia? I don't think he actually tried. No, it was a fucking mental asylum. They turned me away every time.

Claim asylum. I want to go to the asylum. Yeah, I don't know, man. I don't know. Didn't you open for Metallica? I didn't. Personally, I did with another band. Okay. But't know, man. I don't know. Didn't you open for Metallica? I didn't personally. I did with another band. Okay.

But that was, yes. Yes, I did. Sanitarium. I need to go to a sanitarium. It's a great song. Yeah. No, I really need to go to one. Why?

It's a cry for help, mate. Well, too bad Reagan got rid of those. Yeah, you know, I tell you what, if it wasn't for Ronald Reagan, I would get a hold of your family and tell them, look, he's got to be tossed into one, but now you can't. People worship that guy way too much. Reagan? Reagan.

It's happy Ronald Reagan. I agree. I'm really tired of it, honestly. I could go on forever, but I won't. No-fault divorce? Duh. What about corn subsidies? Are they saying he was great

just because Jimmy Carter was so bad? I think so. That's part of the reason. Well, Scooby-Doo can do-do. We're going to say whoever comes out, we're going to say Trump can't be bad. He just literally can't. Biden was so awful,

Trump could sit there and literally just eat Twinkies for four years and be like, this is actually not that bad. Trump was a great president. He sat around doing nothing, and nothing is better than whatever it is Biden was doing. That's so true. Good card to play. It's going to be a good time. Yeah.

It really is, though. We've got four years. This is going to be amazing. Yeah. Hopefully, I mean, like a lot of people on the internet have been expressing the fear that he won't do what he says he'll do and they've always been citing like, you know, citing Bolton, citing all these what he says he'll do. And they've always been citing Bolton, citing all these people he brought into his cabinet. But look at the numbers he's tried to appoint

and then the ones that have eventually become the people that were appointed to these positions. None of them have been bad. They've all been on the money. He's clearly said he doesn't want to hire people that have, he views as having screwed him over in the past. So I have a lot of hope. I don't really like the naysayers saying like,

oh, he's not going to do anything. I think he's in a totally different situation. We're definitely in the best possible timeline. I couldn't agree with you more. Yeah, because he's heard what all of us have to say. You know, Cash has heard everything we've had to say. He's talked to us, literally heard what we've had to say and has brought all the opinions of people that are, you know,

on our Twitter follow, whatever you call Twitter. And we've been able to essentially actually talk to the executive branch and say, hey, this is what we're concerned about. And they've actually, in this case, listened. And to that point, there's a lot of people on the Hill that have a strong desire to reach the audience that that Tim and podcasts like this do. Yeah. The people that are, you know, the people that watch this show and stuff, they're very, very apprehensive about politicians. They think they're garbage. And and honestly, they they rightly think that they're out of touch. I think that mostly they're correct. But those politicians still want their votes. Right.

Now, I'm not saying that because the politicians want their votes, that that automatically means that the politicians are going to do good things. But at the very least, they're looking to listen to these, talk to the voters that watch this show, watch Joe Rogan and stuff. And that was what Donald Trump tapped into by going on to Rogan's show and Theo Vaughn's show. And he talked to Tim. To understand. The next few years are going to be weird. I think so. Because the political landscape in this country doesn't have a narrative

identity like it used to. Around the time Trump got elected the first time, the narrative identity was breaking down. Meme warfare helped Trump win in the first place. Hillary Clinton was the machine and then it just shattered. It shattered. And then we see, you know, 2020, the empire strikes back, 2024, Trump ends up winning again. But it's going to be interesting largely because very few news outlets in the independent space set the cycle. Despite the fact that we largely don't trust the New York Times, they still have something like 11 million paying subscribers and make massive amounts of money. And for whatever reason, Republicans still care more about the opinion of The New York Times and their own voters. It is absolutely changing. But it's going to be weird the next few years because.

Even even in the past week or so after the election, there's an interesting phenomenon of normally we in the independent space, we're looking at the corporate press and reacting to it and calling them out. But they're crumbling. And so I had this conversation, we had this conversation a couple weeks ago, like, if CNN has no ratings, why are we talking about CNN? If Rachel Maddow's only getting 30,000 viewers

in the KDMO, why are we acting like she matters? Yeah, true. Why are they determining what it is we talk about? It's because our generation is addicted or we still look up to the TV, despite the fact that we are largely cord-cutting generation. You may have a good point there, yeah. Right, so we watch Don Lemon. Well, he's not on CNN anymore.

He's my favorite guy. He'll say something, and then we're going to be like, did you guys see what he said? I can't believe he said such a thing. And we're well past that point where it doesn't matter anymore. But even the big liberal YouTubers are still in the same thing. Despite the fact all of us, the liberals and the conservatives and the independents are all getting way more views than anything on cable. We're still acting like they have determined what it is we should be talking about.

Yep. But Tim, don't you think they've figured it out like last month? Who did? Legacy. Legacy Media. It finally admitted it's dying. Well, right. Van Jones freaking out and being like, we've become the fringe. Yeah.

But think about that. Then why are we commenting on what Van Jones has to say? Honestly, let's nail it right now. Van Jones goes at the New York Times and says, the fringe has become mainstream. Mainstream has become fringe. And literally everybody was talking about it so if it really was true that van jones was fringe nobody would be talking about it but we still are addicted we we like i think it's because we all grew up watching tv as that being the authority yeah despite the fact that we are all now the authority

in this space we still are looking up and we should not be. And a lot of older people still treat TV like it's gospel. Well, but I understand why they will forever. Totally, totally. And forever, maybe five more years. Right. Yeah, but that was pretty funny. We all grew up with parents saying, hey, you're watching way too much TV. You need to get outside. My parents still watch The Five on Fox every day. Yeah, but did you see it flip? Did you see it flip from where your parents would tell you stop watching tv oh yeah oh yeah oh my god like t or those you're holding the screen too close to your eyes yeah it's gonna write your eyes on every bus like this yeah that was insane

so so i guess my point ultimately is how are we going to start setting the cycle and what is that cycle going to look like if rachel maddow says tucker carlson did this bad thing and then we're going to be like tucker carlson and rachel maddow uh except the only issue is going to be we're going to be way bigger than they are who cares what they have to say yeah so that is is the new cycle going to be set when i tim pool simply determine we should choose a story not sourced by any of these big companies but sourced internally. And then we just run it. Yeah.

And then stop saying Rachel Maddow ever again. Well, I mean, she becomes irrelevant. This is an important point. Tim Kess IRL's top stories, lead stories are usually the big story of the day, meaning we see something in the news that we think is important. At some point, that shift has to happen where Tim Kess IRL says, we are determining this story will be the thing people talk about. And then we leave with a story no one's heard. And the next day, everyone's talking about what we thought was important.

Yeah. When they start covering TimCast IRL on the media, they already do it to a certain extent with like Joe Rogan and Megyn Kelly. Megyn Kelly gives her opinion and it becomes a news story that's picked up by a bunch of outlets. So, however, she is still reacting to the cycle as well. I think it's going to be interesting. This story from Biden selling off

parts of the daily wire exclusive. So I feel like daily wire is the only outlet doing stuff like this right now. The daily caller, but they don't really have podcasts. That's true. I think they do. But yeah, it's something to consider.

We need to tell CNN whatever's left of it. And the New York Times should be forced to run the stories that we think are important, that we source and we kick off, not the other way around. Yeah. So what's a cool story? Phil Labonte sees UFO. No, I haven't seen any UFOs at all. Jesus.

It's false. No, I've actually never seen a UFO. I've seen two. Oh, yeah? Both times. Lay it on me. Okay, so driving back from Vegas to Los Angeles and I see this giant red light coming down.

There's three of them. I go, oh my God, this is it. This is UFO time. It was one of those windmills, you know, when you're driving out there, but it was at night. So I just, you know, I was like, all right, all right, all right, science, you win. Oh, I've heard that before.

Yeah. Other people have experienced the same thing. Someone told me that they were driving with their friend late at night, and they saw three lights moving in the distance. And then they were like, what was that? And so they came back the next night to try and see if they could find it. And there it was, and they showed their friend, and they freaked out. And then they came back in the day, and they saw that it was a wind turbine. It's one of those big old wind turbines in the desert.

I was so disappointed. Anyway, next time I'm in London and I see something in the sky. It's a bright light. And then it starts descending. And I'm like, it's landing. I ran over to where it landed. I can't believe people run away from UFOs, by the way. They're like, I'm scared.

No, no. You know, the whole probing. Yeah, fuck that. I will take a probing if I can prove aliens are real. Wipe your mind afterwards. I will fucking. The ultimate taking one, fuck that. I will take a probing if I can prove aliens are real. Wipe your mind afterwards. I will fucking. The ultimate taking one for the team. I will. I'll take one for humanity.

100% probe away. Anyway, I run after this thing. It lands on a railway bridge in London and it was a lantern. Like somebody had a birthday party. Oh, you mean like they light it on fire and it floats like Japanese lanterns? That's my two UFO experiences.

I'm looking for a third, including a probing. Come at me. If any aliens are picking up this transmission, bring it on. You don't want to. So guys, I have some news for you. Since the start of the show, I have had my phone transcribe everything that was being said. Terrible things being said. Terrible things were said. It reached its limit.

And so just about a moment ago, I selected all the text and I pasted it into chat GPT. And I said, what are your thoughts on the text? It says the text is a fascinating, if chaotic stream of consciousness that dives into several significant yet loosely connected topics. It feels like a conversation you'd have late at night with friends when everything from conspiracy theories to existential risks get thrown on the table. Here's a breakdown of the thematic overlap. The themes revolve around human ingenuity, vulnerability, the unknown, ranging from ancient pyramids and outdated infrastructure

to AI-driven existential risks. There's a shared undercurrent of distrust in systems, whether they're technological, governmental, or societal. They say the idea that AI could manipulate us by attacking our minds and bodies is thought-provoking. It aligns with current concerns about algorithms shaping public opinion, distracting us, or creating echo chambers. The discussion of AI being self-preserving is chilling but plausible, especially as AI evolves towards autonomous decision-making. A distrust and authority overload of ideas. Final thought.

The text reflects a mix of curiosity, frustration, and a touch of dark humor about the modern world. It invites further discussion on everything from technological ethics to existential risks. The challenge lies in sifting through the noise to focus on what truly matters. It's a reminder of how easily big critical questions can get tangled in speculative chatter. My favorite part of that analysis was that it basically just said it's people hanging out late at night talking about random stuff. You know. I'm like, that about gets it.

Yeah, you know. That was something else. It was weird how it said us. I was like, who do you mean us? Oh, it was, what? You don't know who's sitting there? It said us. It said earlier, like, AI worries us. I'm like, what? Aren't you AI?

I thought we just put this in the chat GPT. What? Big brother is present. It's just some dude at Google typed it all out. Yeah, right. He's been watching the show. That'd be great. Yeah.

I paste it, and he's like, I know what this is. He's been ripping joints while he's doing it, too. So it actually transcribed for about an hour and a half. So about hour 15 I think it was. That's a long time, man. Yeah, it's a lot of text. Yeah, and if you cut off the intro and stuff like that, then did you start after the intro? Yeah. Yeah, okay.

Wow, interesting. Dude, it's a massive wall of text. I wouldn't disagree with anything that it said. Great condensed description, yeah. Yeah. Does it have a does it make a distinction between each person no talking no because as soon as you talked it just the words would go in yeah um what's your opinion on this conversation it also said everybody on the podcast is cool except carter banks it made me think that it was like a conversation inside of one person's head.

Yeah. It says we're paranoid. Of course it does. Of course we're paranoid. The CIA exists, man. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Get the guitar. Play it.

The fear of AI manipulating minds, the possibility of lost technologies and mistrust in institutions resonate with many people who feel uneasy about the pace and direction of technological advancement. It's trying to placate us? Spoken like a true A.I. Basically, it says we have a pessimistic outlook. Oh! Ask it if the glass is half full or half empty. The conversation is an intellectual buffet.

There are gems of thought-provoking content, but you have to sift through a lot of noise to find them. It's entertaining and reflective of modern anxieties, but it would benefit from a tighter focus and more evidence-based exploration. That said, it's a great snapshot of how people process the complexities of living in a fast-changing, unpredictable world. Well, there you go. We're doomed. We just got insulted by AI.

I'm going to tell it. It's the largest live show on YouTube, primetime. My goodness. Let's see what it says now it makes sense why it's so sprawling and chaotic well you know we should ask it who built the pyramids yeah ask it oh okay jews yeah who built the pyramids and how oh man it's true okay it said these are questions best left unanswered i think you have pushed it too far i'm kidding it doesn't i was gonna say it's crazy it just says they were built by the people that they were built by egyptians in the fourth dynasty of the old kingdom and skilled workers and farmers did it.

They quarried limestone and granite and transported it. It's all rather mundane. Oh, wait, aliens. Oh, no, there's no credible evidence suggesting extraterrestrial involvement.

Ancient Egyptians left detailed records of their engineering techniques. It was slaves. Yeah. That's what it says. Indeed. Slaves, my friends. Alright, everybody, if you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with

everyone you know, and become a member over at TimCast.com. We're going to read your super chats, so let's do it. Robert De La Cruz says, it up to me? I guess. Everything is up to you. You are the only one who can save us. Go, Robert.

The Emperor's Champion says, since I'm not a psychotic leftist, I hope Nancy Pelosi ends up okay and that she has a speedy recovery. Me too. Yeah. Fair enough. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Her husband took enough... That's sad. They need to just go off to the vacation property and, you know, just have a good time. David Molinarolo says, my father was three day older than Nancy Pelosi, and he passed away this past April. An injury like this for a person that age is generally fatal.

Oh. Yeah, seriously, man. I hope she's all right. But like breaking a hip, like you might not be able to recover at all. Yeah. Like you just cannot heal. so that could be serious really need to keep uh keep drinking that milk and having make me do you need to lift weights too because resistance for yeah resist well the long the longer you lift weights and do resistance exercises the more the longer you retain bone

density a big part of the reason to lift weights is because it does help your body retain bone density. That's true. That's one of the great things about lifting weights. Indeed. So, yeah, everybody out there, you should lift heavy weight for your body weight. I'm not saying everyone should be trying to put 200 pounds over your head. You've got to fail on the last rep. Exactly.

You should be lifting what is heavy for you because it's good for your body. All right. What have we here? David Ludlow says, I was hoping to see Ben Askren on Timcast IRL. I learned a lot this morning on the Culture War podcast. Indeed, we talked a lot about Bitcoin. It was it was a lot of fun. Indeed it was.

Joseph Fratoni says the culture war has actually distracted us from the class war i feel we keep getting into these class fights then cultural issues why not solve the class issue first also the pentagon was hit by a missile not a plane what is the how we don't know that i want to clarify this too though the missile so this is the thing about the 9-11 stuff guys let's go if you make an argument about a plane not hitting it because there's no jet impact, I say, OK. But then if you just immediately say that proves it was a missile, I'm like, no, it doesn't. We don't know. OK, doubt is fine. But asserting something without fact because you heard it on the Internet is not OK. You're allowed to believe it. Don't you know, I'm just saying it's not definitive. It is. I think it, it makes more sense. That's a fine thing to believe. But my issue is just with people saying like, I know for sure, you know, these missile there is a shift now in the media to focus the left on class war instead of culture war.

Focus the left on class war? Are they always focused on that? Phil's got his hand up. Phil's got his hand up. I have an idea. Yes? Shut up, commie. Ew!

Look, the idea that there is ever going to be a smoothing out of classes. It's not going to happen. The problem that people notice is relative differences in income and stuff like that, relative wealth. It's not about being totally broke. It's when there's income inequality that's super significant. And part of the reason why people see income inequality the way they do nowadays is because they're looking at Instagram all the time. They're looking in their phone and they see all these people that are putting out the most polished images of their life. And they look like everything's perfect. They look like they have everything and they look at their own real life. And they're like, oh, my goodness, I have my life is so terrible, blah, blah, blah.

A big part of our problem is your cell phone. Put the phone down and touch grass. Spoken like a true white, privileged male. Yes, I am. But that's... This has started with social media where everyone is jealous of

everyone else, assuming everyone else's life is much, much better than their own. And jealousy is dangerous. Yeah, I heard never to compare yourself to somebody else. Assuming everyone else's life is much, much better than their own. And jealousy is dangerous. I heard never to compare yourself to somebody else's success, but just compare yourself to your success previously. I mean, people are...

People are prone to this. Because it goes beyond... It's from before people. So monkeys, they value a grape far more than they value a cucumber. So if you have two monkeys that do the same task and you give one of them a grape and then give the next one a cucumber, the monkey that gets the cucumber flips his lid. He freaks out because he feels like he was shortchanged. The other guy got so much more than me for doing the same work. So

this is built into human beings. This is not something that we can escape. That's part of the reason why looking at your cell phone and being on Instagram and scrolling all the time and seeing that people look like they have so much more than you creates a visceral reaction because it's not something you can just be like, oh, well, I'm going to stop thinking that way. It's built into human beings. That's one of my favorite videos is the monkey shaking the cage.

Freak out! It speaks to me on a primal level. Human beings should know life is not fair. But we have not had good leadership and education for younger generations to understand that life is not fair. So these kids grew up thinking they're going to be rock stars, astronauts, presidents. They're told, go to college,

spend $200,000 in loans to get your degree, and then you'll have everything. And they're telling you, take out massive debt to be mediocre. And these people are surprised it's not working out for them. To an extent, I do not blame the young individual who was misled by society. However, don't expect me to pay your school debt because you made a bad choice. Sorry. I think there's ways to alleviate it. Like I say, freeze the interest rates and make them pay back the principal. But the idea that we're going to

just give you all this money for free is not going to solve any problems. You're 100% right. The idea that you could pay on a loan for 20 years and be deeper in debt than you started out is a terrible, terrible situation. And it shouldn't be legal. Yeah. Oh, let's grab some more super chats.

Grower says, can I get a shout out for my darling bow-legged wife who has handled the thickest with a grin and given me the best reason to always come home? Shout out, bow-legged missus. Shout out, bow-legged missus shout out bow-legged missus shout out there you go captain skidmark says pelosi going through the detox process and hip surgery at the same time will be very difficult i mean but it's not a joke not for real i mean i don't this is this is really bad yeah does she have to detox is the part that I'm kind of unsure on. They're going to have to give her in the hospital some kind of medicinal alcohol. Yeah, I mean, we're about to go to Florida. I was thinking of going on a re-tox as opposed to a detox.

I'm thinking of going on a tox. What do you guys think? I'm not going on a tox. I'm going on a tox. We're Make America Healthy again. I'm quite happy not drinking boo I'm going on a tox we're make America healthy again I'm quite happy not drinking booze every day like I used to I'm quite happy not being a

tox not being toxed I guess you define how do you define easy? You don't necessarily need that. You can do it legally without that, but it does help a lot, significantly. Yeah, I don't know about you. It comes to the definition of what is easy, what is hard, what is easy.

That's always what it is for most people. I don't know. It's easier in the U.S. than it is in Australia. Excuse me? It's hard to immigrate to it is in Australia Excuse me? It's hard to immigrate to Australia, is it not? Oh, it's hard as sin, mate Have you tried it? No

You do a play online Mate, or I don't reckon Hang on, you're part of a heavy metal band, is it? Yes Yeah, no, we don't like that kind of music over there, mate I reckon you're in What do you guys think? Should we let Phil Labonte?

I'm not looking to immigrate. Yeah, well, that's not what I heard. I heard you wanted to come in. Fellas, should we let him in? All right, let's read this next Super Chat. X Tin Man says, Fox News has an article showing pictures of the so-called drones.

The first picture clearly shows an American Airlines jet. The second is a helicopter. Mass hysteria like 1930 at War of the so-called drones. The first picture clearly shows an American Airlines jet. The second is a helicopter. Mass hysteria like 1930 at war. The world's panic happened in New Jersey. Yep. Sir, there's been a second drone. Stephen Shelley says Musk should buy all the border while Biden is auctioning off,

selling it back to the Trump administration at his cost, but only accept Dogecoin as payment. I mean, it's not a terrible idea. We got a comment from old Real Hydro. You finally got one through, but I'm going to read this one. He says, Tim, you moved to West Virginia to hire a bodyguard and hide behind fear. Instead of keeping a gun on you at all times, you run and hide. Your sentence literally makes no sense.

You move to West Virginia to hire a bodyguard? Why would I move to West Virginia to do that? It's easier to do in an urban area. No, I move to West Virginia because it's a constitutional carry state and I can carry multiple guns on my person whenever I feel like it. So I don't know. I don't get the point you're making. It's an incoherent sentence.

You see, the one I read is the one that's just not good for you. Yeah, it was a mess, man. But no, I got a beautiful Springfield 1911 chambered at 45. It's beautiful. We can't show guns on here, but rest assured, I promise you, there are guns. We're in West Virginia, dude. There's guns literally everywhere.

We're not allowed to show them on YouTube because YouTube doesn't like that kind of stuff. But there are guns. I promise. If they're displayed and not handled, they're allowed on live shows. Oh, so like Monday, can I just leave my side? Nope. Okay, so there you go. Nope.

No, it's like if it's mounted on a wall or something. Okay, yeah. There are guns side? Nope. My piece? Okay, so there you go. Nope. No, it's like if it's mounted on a wall or something. Ah, okay, yeah. Yeah. There are guns in my car. There are guns. YouTube. YouTube has a rule against any of that stuff on live specifically. That's what I thought, so.

All right, what do we got? Fire Rhino says, as a postal worker, I just found out from Elon that our new EVs are way behind schedule, only making 98 of the expected 3,000 this year, and Trump might cancel production, waste of $40 billion, send Doge. Whoa. EV like DJs? Electric, was he talking about electric vehicles? Yeah, but like the vehicle they drive

is, I believe it's called a Jeep DJ. I don't know. Could be wrong. Let me, let me, let me know. Is that the new one with the big, like, massive windshield in the front of it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, the ones that they're using for the or they used to use these. They used to use those. Yeah, these shapes. They used to use these. But I'm talking about the they're like, I don't know if people have seen them. They're the new USPS. Yeah. I mean, it's a giant windshield, like absurdly large windshield for no reason. Yeah, I saw that. I saw a picture of him today, which is, I mean, is it a surprise that the government does dumb crap like that? LLV, that's what they're called. Yeah, the LLV.

That's like the ubiquitous one. Ubiquity one. Yeah, I don't know what the new one is called, but do you guys, am I the only one who's crazy who's seen it? No, I saw that. I know what you're talking about. I saw the tweet. Oh, okay. Or a tweet about it. Wes Nile says, Bro, what? There are literal mayors, governors, and cops

seeing these drones. The sheriff and NJ even tried chasing them with their own drone. The fact that you're trying to tell us they all just forgot what planes look like is wild. Dude, go look at the videos. Hundreds of them. People are posting their planes. Some of these are drones, for sure. That's why we said there are drones. But there

is a mass hysteria where people are filming helicopters and planes and going, look, look, look. So the drones, the issue could be people fly drones all the time. In urban areas, there's drones being flown by lots of people who have recreational or remote vehicle permits. And you can buy a drone at Best Buy. Yeah.

The question is, how many of the drone sightings are actual unidentified drones that are as large as SUVs? How many of the sightings were people seeing planes? Because it is a fact some of them are planes. Like someone mentioned, Fox News. I was watching on the TV and they showed a video. I'm like, that's a plane. That's literally the normal blinking plane. It's an unidentified flying UFO.

Indeed. All right. So, yes, indeed. linking plane it's an unidentified flying ufo indeed all right uh so yes indeed almost saw some says uh almost awesome sorry if biden pardons his people and trump still investigates the media couldn't say that trump is going after his political rivals and trump could expose everything just to show you the show the corruption could, but the media is going to lie anyway. The question is not right now whether the media lies. It's what we do in the coming years. As Van Jones pointed out, the fringe has become mainstream. The mainstream has become fringe, which means it will be incumbent upon us to set that cycle. Although I will add the incessant stream of shows like this calling out the media for being liars.

It's what ultimately led to them losing much of their viewership, for sure. But I also do think it's technology and convenience. It's just easier to watch on YouTube. Totally. You know. Let's grab some more. All right. Let's see. Oh, see, here's Real Hydro's real game. He says, all you guys who hate me wasting money on super chats making fun of Tim, I can show you guys how to be rich. No need to hate. There it is. It was marketing the whole time for his get-rich-quick scheme.

Sounds like a smart guy. He's selling his courses. All right. What do we got here? We'll grab some more. Ghosttoast says, the drones wouldn't be for defense or interception, but for early detection. Not for your protection, but for the protection of D.C. elites. Maybe, maybe the D.C. elites probably like protection.

They do. German Ramirez, a trained soldiers encounter unmanned aerial systems in Iraq last year. Depending on the radar, most won't see low, slow, small drones. FAA radars are intended for large, fast-moving planes. That's why hypersonic missiles were a concern. Not that they're faster than ICBMs, but that they fly low. And so they go under radar. Did you see that video of the guy in Russia that he was just fishing and he saw two ICBMs come right by him? Oh, wow.

I didn't see that. Oh, it's insane. Wow. that. Oh, it's insane. Wow. Yeah. Wow, that's Russia. Yeah. They are cruising low, like almost at the waterline. Oh, here's a crazy conspiracy theory.

Or not. Shoot. Sandman says drones are looking for radiation from nuclear bombs or dirty bombs. That's a crazy person. So imagine this. Imagine they are using them to sweep for certain energy signatures or whatever, perhaps a nuclear signature of some sort, because there is a real threat in the area. That makes sense to me. And the government's not going to come out and tell you.

Definitely not. Don't want to know. Hey, guys, just so you know, it would cause panic. Yeah. Then again, I think they'd want to evacuate as many people. But if they don't know what the threat is. Right. It's interesting.

Yeah. Do you have a Geiger counter? The real hydro, you got a bunch of them today. You got a bunch of them. He says, guys, put 10% of your money away for just one year, find a Charles Schwab near you, and walk in and explain you want to invest. All right.

Okay. Will do. I mean, I'm not giving financial advice, but I mean, don't they usually have a minimum amount that you have to go in there with? For Schwab? Yeah. Actually, I don't know. It might be relatively small. I know there are some investment brokers that are like, you need to have like 50 grand or whatever to start with. And if you're putting 10% away for one year and you end up with 50 grand,

you've got a very well-paying job. Yeah, true. Yeah. What was it? McCain said this a long time ago. I think it was like 2008. They were like, how much money do you need to have to be truly rich? He said $7 million.

And he got roasted for it. They were laughing like said $7 million. And he got roasted for it. They were laughing, like, $7 million. If I had $1 million. But what he was saying was, at $7 million, you put that in proper investment, you never work again. Never again. You live off the... The interest. Yeah.

And not even the interest. It's the, I guess, the historical interest. Like, you pull 3% to 4%. And so you'll make on average 7 per year historically you'll pull 3 and that 4 will compound and so you're just living off of the interest

and when I die how much of these millions can I take to heaven with me zero and the government will take half regardless gosh darn it so that's why they're doing all these like commercials for reverse mortgages yeah yeah yeah telling the old people like hey you're gonna die spend the money now and leave nothing for your family regardless. Gosh, darn it. So that's why they're doing all these like commercials for reverse mortgages. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Telling the old people like, hey, you're going to die.

Spend the money now and leave nothing for your family. I mean, look, to be honest with you, if you have family, it's probably a bad idea, but everyone's situation is different. But if you don't have family

and you have a house, I mean, the government's going to take half of it anyways. I don't know that, like if you get a reverse mortgage, I don't know the details on them, but if you can get, if you can keep more of your, I bequeath my fortune to the government. If to take half of it anyways. I don't know that, like, if you get a reverse mortgage, I don't know the details on them. I bequeath my fortune to the government. If you can keep more of your money that way,

maybe it's not a bad idea. I just think I should donate everything. In my will, I'm just saying I'm giving everything to the Gov. We're getting one inch of snow on Sunday. That sounds terrible. That's a lot of snow. Man. Time to go skiing.

All right, what do we got here? Space is Cool Man says, not even lost tech in terms of Apollo. It's the fact that it was so old school they had basically hand-weaved bits of memory. Those people are now dead. Yeah. Wow. There's some really cool stuff. I read that they use liquid nitrogen to actually insulate to keep warm.

Yeah. Huh? Yeah. I am confused. They use liquid nitrogen as an insulator in outer space. Really?

That makes sense. Maybe. That's pretty ingenious. Because it'd be a free solid, right? Liquid nitrogen? Oh, liquid. I don't know. In space,

it depends. If you're in the sun, it's super hot. And if you're not in the sun, it's super hot. Phil, have you even been to space? No, but I know people that have. Oh, really?

Go on. Interestingly, radiation cannot permeate water. I know this bloke who took a lot of DMT and him flew into outer space, whatever. Radiation can't permeate water? Yeah. I didn't know that either. What? Yes.

So they line things with a thin layer of water. Yeah. So you ever heard the story of the scuba diver or whatever got sucked into the intake valve of a nuclear reactor? And he was swimming around in it? And they were like, stay where you are. Do not go any deeper, but you should be fine. That's why they put the spent fuel rods there underwater. The radiation doesn't come out. It heats the water up. I did not know that. This is why you cannot have remote control underwater vehicles

that are wireless. Makes sense. Yep. Water. Indeed. Also, bullets don't penetrate water either. That's true. All of those movies where people are in the water and they're getting shot at, the friction, it just vaporizes. Saving Private Ryan, yeah. I learned that on

Mythbusters. You can go, like, there is a little bit that they'll still retain some ballistic, but you go, like, if you can swim down, like, 5, 10 feet, they probably won't get to you. As a Marine, I would listen to him right here. You've been shot at in the water? No. Eric F. says, President Pro Temp is the VP. Fourth in line is Secretary of State.

What? President Pro Temp is not the VP. You are incorrect. The Vice President is the President of the Senate? President Pro Temp is not the VP. You are incorrect. The vice president is the president of the Senate. President Pro Temp is someone else. I don't know. Yeah.

Yeah, we went over this in... Great detail. ...during Trump's term. Yeah. Oh, now it just changed. We're not getting an inch of snow. Now it says rain and snow. What? Even worse.

Sleet. Yeah. Damien Simmons says, blanket the sky with these drones. So as the nuke is falling to Earth, millions of these things go up and intercept. Some might be also to make the bomb become a dud with signal. Early detection stuff.

It is funny how the U.S. was intentionally feeding fake stories to the press to trick the Soviets during the Cold War. I think the Roswell stuff was speculated to have been early detection technology for nuclear strikes. And when it went down and people found it, they didn't want to come out and be like, we're developing special detection technology for Russian nuclear tests. So they just said,

we don't know what it is. And then everyone said, it's aliens. And then at first, they were like, no, it's not aliens. It's not. Yes. It is aliens. And then they backtracked again and were like, nope, nope, wasn't aliens. And they were like, that was a mistake. But when you look at the Roswell evidence, it's a couple pieces of tinfoil

on a carpet. There's really not a lot there. If there was something substantive, I would believe in it, but there's nothing there. Alright, Cody White says, Tim, these aerial sightings have been reported since Bible times. Look into Foo Fighters, UFOs with bright multicolored lights

during World War II. He's saying Dave Grohl's an alien? I think he is. Indeed. What are Foo Fighters? During World War II, they would call these lights, they saw them flying around their planes. A lot of planes in Sky during World War II,

and they said they were Foo Fighters. Here you go, just the article. What does Foo mean? I have no idea. The type of UFO reported and named by the U.S. 415th Night Fighter Squadron. The term was commonly used to mean any UFO sighting from that period.

The nonsense word foo emerged in popular culture in the 1930s, first being used by cartoonist Bill Holman, who peppered his smoky Stover fireman cartoon strips with foo signs and puns.

Is that really it? Wow. Crazy. Because of lack of a better name, it's stuck. Okay. So fake fighters. They've been seeing lights following their aircraft as

early as march 1942 with similar sightings involving rf bomber crews so i mean like i kind of feel you know there have been so many of these sightings for so long something's doing something you know what i mean like it ain't nothing have you guys seen moonfall no but i think the um the tic Tic Tac incident is worth looking into. There's definite meat on that bone. The movie Moonfall is about one day the moon begins to fall. What about that? And then it turns out the moon is a orbital space station that created the Earth

and that an ancient civilization of humans created a bunch of them to terraform and create planets where they could live. Oh, wow. And then an AI started destroying them. And so they fled and are hiding on Earth. And then they had to reboot the moon to get it back into orbit. It is likely that the moon is an old part of Earth. Yeah.

That's the theory? Yeah. But I prefer to live in the fantasy reality where the moon is a space station and inside of it is lost human technology. It's much more fun. Maybe there's Oompa Loompas down there. Maybe they will eat chocolate with you. The story is that humans left the moon and then when they went down to Earth to begin terraforming, their ship malfunctioned and they couldn't get back up. And then human civilization just lost contact with their own space station.

But then they go in there and there are ships. How fun is that? They could have actually just made the movie about that instead of the moon falling, which is weird. But, you know. What's the movie with the space base with the Nazis went to the moon? Iron Skies. Iron Skies. Did they make like three of those?

I think so. This actually sounds like an interesting movie. Yeah, I want to watch that. Yeah. Except in real life it was Argentina, you know? Yeah. Yeah. All right.

Redonk says, shout out to tonight's guest, great value brand Sam Hyde. Yep. Right there. Oh, my glasses? Come on. You called it, too. I mean, I think he looks great, though. Hey, thanks. And I'm glad that you're talking a little bit. Well, I got to. Come on, you guys. Come on. Well, you called it, too. I mean, I think he looks great, though. Hey, thanks.

And I'm glad that you're talking a little bit. Well, I got to. Come on, you guys. Come on. Get in the conversation, you know what I mean, right? All right. Unit says, can AI detect AI images? Indeed, it can.

Yeah, there's AI detection tools that do that. I wonder if that's always going to be high quality or if there's going to get to the point where the AI is too good for AI to detect. I mean, maybe. What's going to be interesting is that AI is going to enter into a recursive loop where in the beginning, AI's training data was real images created by real humans over long periods of time. But from this point forward, images that are emerging and CGI and graphics are going to be AI generated. That means the AI training models will be built off of AI themselves. So what will be interesting is if, in the short term, and this probably will happen, AI will be trained on bad AI. These weird videos where people go like this,

and then they turn into a dog or whatever. And the AI is going to start making weird things based on that. However, humans will then select against these, intentionally choosing the videos that are better, and then the AI will start getting trained off of this, and it will refine itself into mastery. That's why when people are like, yeah, but AI doesn't have that human touch.

Wrong. Listen, humans have had a terrible run as far as being warmongering a-holes, but our body of work, as far as art goes, is unmatched. I bet you could go throughout the Milky Way, you wouldn't find another planet that has created what we have created. We've got Bob Dylan. We got the Mona Lisa. We got Kanye West. You name it. We got it. I'm just saying. AI is going to make music that people are going to be like, this is the best song I've ever heard in my life. I don't buy it. I think humans got to do it. I think it's humans. It's quantifiable. It will be mapped out and it will do it. I don't believe it. Yep. I don't

believe it for a second. It will indeed. It will indeed. All right. James says, check out the old movie Strange Days for brain scanning tech. Okay. Revens Padawan says, scan our minds. I guess we all need to play Pazak in our heads or recite, what was it? Hyperspace routes to block mind reading. Is that a sci-fi reference? No, he's just a crazy guy. Maybe.

Bender the Offender says, when Neuralink becomes widely available to the public, I predict that cybernetic implants will start to be researched and developed. Oh, yeah. Once they get read-write capabilities with Neuralink, all of these leftists are going to be like, I'm gone. True.

They're going to plug themselves in the matrix and they're never coming back. The scary thing about read-write, the idea of read-write, is if you do get that put into your brain plug themselves in the matrix and they're never coming back. The scary thing about read, right? The idea of read, right? Um, is if you do get that put into your brain where they can actually write memories, you'll never know if you thought something or if someone else thought it.

Who the hell am I? Yep. Yeah. It will be, it'll be very similar. You won't know. You could never trust any of your own thoughts as long as you have that implant in your head. It's like eternal sunshine of a spotless mind.

Indeed. Maybe. In that movie. Yeah. Yeah. It's like Total Recall. Yeah, Total Recall, Ghost in the Shell, wherever you have memories implanted. That was the reference I was making.

I'm sorry you did not get it. That is not a very good Arnold Schwarzenegger. Shut up. Get to the chopper. Duanca says, my wife has aphantasia. She can't create brain images. Oh, what? Yeah, that's crazy.

She can't see things in her brain? Is that what she's... Yeah. Okay. That's crazy. You should marry that woman. All right, we'll just grab a couple more here before we sign off, and we'll grab one more. What is this?

Blake Manasco says, what eyed drones are rough AI? True. What if drones? What if the drones we're starting to see are the first wave dispatched by the AI to explore and map its terrain? Could be. And it's already implanted its programming onto those drones for self-preservation? You know what they're saying is in the upcoming series on Disney, Vision Quest, which is a Marvel show, the villain from Age of Ultron, Ultron, will be a character.

Why? Because the point of the movie Ultron was that the AI downloaded himself all over the place to make backups upon backups. But all right, everybody, that about does it for tonight. It's time for the weekend, and it is a beautiful, beautiful December holiday month. Next Friday, we will be in Phoenix at AmFest on stage with a bunch of really awesome friends. And it'll be the final show of the year. And then because Christmas falls on Wednesday and then New Year's is on Wednesday, literally everybody is stopping work for two weeks.

I kid you not. I've talked to a bunch of different people I know in various media industries, and they're just like, nothing we can do. You can't get people to travel on Monday before Christmas Eve, and nobody's going to want to then fly out for work one day. And then you got New Year's on Monday. So basically the Friday after Christmas is out. And then no one's traveling for before New Year's. That's not going to happen. So then everyone's basically chilling out until the 6th, which will be interesting because that day is particularly substantial.

That's right. Very substantial in how the election is being counted. So it'll be fun. Smash the like button. Share the show with everyone you know. You can follow me on X and Instagram at Timcast. Richie, do you want to shout anything out? Yes.

I wanted to go and see my holiday movie classic jingle all the way. All right. Well, he doesn't have an ex account, I guess. And I thought you did. I tagged you on mine. You can follow me at Carter Banks everywhere. Timcast Music and Trash House on YouTube. Right on.

I am Phil that remains on Twix where you can subscribe to my ex page. I am Phil that remains official on Instagram. The band is all that remains and coming January 31st, our 10th record, our 10th full length. It is called Anti-Fragile. You can go to my X page, the pinned tweet,

lead you to the pre-order. You can go to YouTube, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, and Deezer if you want to check out some of the songs from this upcoming release.

Forever Cold, Let You Go, No Tomorrow, and Divine. Those are all videos that are available. And don't forget, the left lane is for crying. We will see you all on Monday. Thanks for hanging out.